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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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        "Reparations",
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        "World War, 1939-1945",
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    "ocrText": "Anyhow, the delays did give us the opportunity to see more of the Soviets,\nand it was a highly enlightening experience. To those of the mission who were\nstaying at the Savoy, this enlightenment called for a sense of humor. Only two\nrooms on each floor had baths and toilets\nand the baths were useless because\nthere was no hot water. I had asked Maisky if he could do something about this,\nbut he was unable to do so, as I probably should have known. So, I spoke to\nAmbassador Harriman and he took it up with Molotov. This brought results:\narrangements were made for one hour of hot water each day! But: this did no\ngood, ehtier, because the magic hour chosen was 7 to 8 p.m.; and, since the meet-\nings never got under way until at least 3 o'clock in the afternoon, everybody was\nalways in a meeting between 7 and 8, so they still couldn't get a bath. The dele-\ngates did, however, devise one expedient: they discovered that they were served\ntea\n\"chi\" -- each morning. So, they used the \"chi\" for shaving. It was only\na few days before the conference ended -- after nearly a month -- that the hot water\nhour was changed to morning, and baths were possible at last. Understandably,\npractically everybody in Moscow could be a character in the Lifebuoy soap cartoons,\nbut one finally becomes accustomed to it -- and then he has the jolting thought\nthat undoubtedly the reason he has become accustomed to it is because he has started\nto smell, too!\nThe food was especially ordered and prepared for the American and British\ndelegations. We would not have complained even if it had been bad, because we\ncould see with our own eyes the difficulties under which the Soviets lived. But,\nthe fact is that it was not bad at all, although there were no fresh vegetables\nexcept potatoes, rice and cucumbers. Fish was plentiful, and there was occasional\nmeat. That most famed of Russian delicacies, caviar, was not to be had by the\nlocal residents, themselves, but we were permitted to buy it -- for\na\npound, which is ridiculously reasonable, at that, compared with the price of $100\na pound quoted by a Washington store in the Spring of 1947.\n- -"
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