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AUGUST 2, 1945 REPORT ON THE TRIPARTITE CONFERENCE OF BERLIN I On July 17, 1945, the President of the United States of America, Harry S. Truman, the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Generalissimo J. V. Stalin, and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston S. Churchill, together with Mr. Clement R. Attlee, met in the Tripartite Conference of Berlin. They were accompanied by the foreign secretaries of the three Governments, Mr. James F. Byrnes, Mr. V.M. Molotov, and Mr. Anthony Eden, the Chiefs of Staff, and other advisers. ARCHIVES CKLLURDS SERVICE* AND There were nine meetings between July 17 and July 25. The Conference was then interrupted for two days while the results of the British general election were being declared. On July 28 Mr. Attlee returned to the Conference as Prime Minister, accompanied by the new Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ernest Bevin. Four days of further discussion then took place. During the course of the Conference there were regular meetings of the Heads of the Three Governments accompanied by the foreign secretaries, and also of the Foreign Secretaries alone. Committees appointed by the Foreign Secretaries for preliminary consideration of questions before the Conference also met daily. The