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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",
        "Reconstruction (1939-1951)",
        "Reparations",
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    "ocrText": "Housing in Moscow, as most people realize, presented a situation which we\nin this country can scarcely comprehend -- that is, as far as the ordinary citizen\nis concerned. If one is an important Government official in the Soviet Union, he\nlives like a king. In contrast, right next door to Spasso House, there was a\nlarge apartment building with six people living in rooms that I judged were about\ntwelve feet square. A cook stove occupied part of each room, with the chimmey\nprotruding through the window. One needed look no further than the contrasts in\nhousing to ,understand the class distinction was sharper in Russia than anywhere in\nthe western world. On the other hand, there was at least no sex distinction: women\ndid everything that men did -- and, in addition, found time to have babies. Right\noutside our window at Spasso House, women with picks and shovels were tearing up\nthe street car tracks.\nThe secret police -- the NKVD -- were literally everywhere, and all foreigners,\nincluding members of the diplomatic and consular corps, were under constant scrutiny.\nYour automobile. driver was given a. license to operate only in a specified area,\nsuch as Spasso House, the Savoy, your office, and the Foreign Office, the Kremlin,\nthe airport and the ballet. If you wanted to go anywhere else, you had to get a visa,\nand the driver had to obtain a detailed permit from the Government, plus an Intourist\ncard. This took two or three days.\nTo go to the Opera, an ordinary resident of Moscow had to apply a year ahead.\nAs privileged guests, we could go at any time. On such a visit, I came out between\nacts with Mrs. Pauley and one of my interpreters, Arthur I. Saul, and we ordered\nbeer==-which, incidentally, was $3.50 a glass (a candy bar was $12 in U.S. money,\nice cream $4 for a single scoop and $7 for a double and at the diplomatic ex-\nchange of 12-to-l, at that) .\nWe notice a young Soviet air force captain, wearing many decorations. He\nwas a cleanly-cut, good-looking chap. We invited him to have a beer and he cheer-\nfully accepted. Through Saul, I asked him about his decorations, about what kind"
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