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        "Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965",
        "Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959",
        "Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986",
        "Pauley, Edwin W. (Edwin Wendell), 1903-1981",
        "Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965",
        "Connally, Tom, 1877-1963",
        "Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977",
        "Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959",
        "Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969",
        "Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972",
        "Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890-",
        "Daniels, Jonathan W. (Jonathan Worth), 1902-1981",
        "Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953",
        "Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967",
        "Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945",
        "Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951",
        "Bidault, Georges-Augustin, 1899-1983",
        "Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945",
        "Hannegan, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1903-1949",
        "Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951",
        "Clayton, Will (William Lockhart), 1880-1966",
        "Jackson, Samuel Dillon, 1895-1951",
        "Pavlov, Vladimir, 1915-1993",
        "Maisky, Ivan Mikhailovitch, 1884-1975",
        "Presidential campaign, 1944",
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    "ocrText": "I saw Mr. Molotov in the course of this San Francisco visit, and discussed\nthe forthcoming negotiations at some length. I told him that I hoped that the\nMoscow meeting might be kept as short as possible, and that we might confine our\nefforts to agreement on principles, leaving the details to be determined later,\nin Germany, where the first-hand information would be available, and where\nfacilities for study and action would be better.\nMolotov reacted sharply to this expression, and was quite forceful in his\nopposition. He was determined, he said, that there be strict adherence to the\nYalta agreement that the Reparations Commission do its work in Moscow, and he\nwould not hear anything to the contrary.\nHe asked my opinion as to the Russian demand that the total of reparations\nfrom Germany be set at $20 billion, half of this to go to Russia. I told him\nthat I did not see how $20 billion worth of reparations could be gotten out of\nGermany, but that I would quite naturally abide by former President Roosevelt's\nagreement that this figure be the basis of discussion.\nMy failure to embrace his $20 billion premise obviously irritated him.\nHe made it very clear that he was extremely eager to get the Allied Commission\non Reparations into action speedily. Speaking of the great need of the Soviet\nUnion for goods of all kinds, he accused the United States and Britain of\n\"Stalling\" in the matter of reparations.\nAs a matter of fact, the British were stalling. I talked in San Francisco\nwith Anthony Eden, then the Britsh foreign minister, and he admitted to me\nquite freely that he was trying to delay the reparations discussions for the\nreason that His Majesty's Government felt that certain other economic fundamentals\nneeded settlement first.\nBut there could be no more delays now. The meeting date had been set -- for\nJune 21, 1945, at Moscow. The chips would soon be down.\n-4-"
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