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    "ocrText": "3/14/54 Reel 6, Track 2, Page 2\ntonight, the whole business was in the soup because we were going to have\na meeting the next morning to get this thing wound up. At that point,\nAnthony Eden, who was catching a cold, blew up with a terrific report,\nactually lost his temper, and wes tremendously effective. His opening\nstatement was, \"Every time a crisis occurs in the world, some damn\nFrenchman goes to bedi\" Well, this was so wild and so good, that it just\nshocked everybody into the necessary state of fright, and then we told the\nFrench-I said we were going to call up Mr. Schumann and get him back here.\nWell, great protests about that, so we said, \"All right, you go and see\nMr. Schumanh and tell him that Mr. Eden and I say he agreed to this, or\n-\nwe'll call him on the telephone and get him right back here now.\" So\nthey\nrushed over and pretty soon they came back and said we were right;\nthat Mr. Schumann had definitely agreed. At that point, Anthony, being\nvery angry and fed up and feeling wretchedly, said he was going to bed.\nTRUMAN\nAnd I said, \"Well, I suppose I could say that at every crisis some damn\nthe\nt's\nannoun\nEnglishman goes to bed. But if you go, the only reason that I'll tolerate\nyour going to bed is if you'll give me a proxy to decide any issue that\ncomes up here as though you were deciding it.\" And Anthony said, \"Oh,\nall right, I'll do that.\" So I stayed in the living room until 4 o'clock\nthat morning and every dispute that came up, if it was a French dispute\nI was Mr. Schumann; if it was a British one, I was Mr. Eden; and if our\nfuss,\npeople raised I was myself, speaking for Harriman, Lovett,\nSnyder, everybody else. We finally got this thing done and we gotthe\ntelegrams off. We got a very prompt response in the morning from Adenauer\nsomewhere before 11 o'clcok, saying that he agreedto doing what we had\nasked him to do; and this whole business was settled. That night before\ngoing to bed I sent a telegram to the President saying that we had to wait\nuntil the morning to know, but my opinion was- very strong guess was that\nthis was going to be a very great success, that everything worked out far\nbeyond our hopes, and that I hoped that when he got the final word he would"
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