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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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        "World War, 1939-1945",
        "Potsdam Conference, 1945"
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    "ocrText": "since I had no authority of any kind to be there -- and I let him take the camera\nwithout resistance. Then he began grabbing at me with obvious intent to take me\ninto custody. I pulled out passes and identification cards and began showing them,\nbut it was clear that I was making no impression whatsoever. He was a Mongolian,\nand clearly understood no English, and more than likely very little Russian. I had\nmeanwhile, been looking around for Colonel Fogelson, who was the only one who had the\nkind of credentials that all Russians understand: a loaded .45 automatic. And\nFogelson was four blocks down the street! Having no yearing to acquire first-hand\ninformation as to the methods of the Soviet military police, I shouted\nand shouted\nsome more.\nYes, he finally heard me. He arrived just as the sergeant was herding me\ninto the gate. Colonel Fogelson had a Soviet military pass, showing his rank and,\nbelieve it or not (the colonel's automatic being in plain sight), the man was finally\nimpressed -- but not completely. He suddently turned and ran through the gate,\nprobably, we assumed, to get someone of higher rank to help him with his problem.\nNeedless to say, we did not wait. I quickly hid my camera in the other car, just\nas a precaution in case we were pursued, and we began putting the freight yard\nbehind us -- fast.\nMeanwhile, I had collected quite an impressive array of pictures from a large\nnumber of industrial plants, both in the Soviet zone and in ours; in places where I\nhad Soviet permission to be, and in places where I had no permission. Every installa-\ntion that I visited: a Zeiss plant, an International Telephone and Telegraph plant,\nseveral machine plants, and quite a number of others -- all had been stripped of\nthe most valuable and usable equipment. At a rayon plant, a Red truck arrived while\nI was there, and the driver disclosed that he had come to \"finish\" taking away\nmaterial. He seemed surprised to find that the U.S. had taken over; but, even after\nhe had been informed, he appeared almost surprised that he was not allowed to take\nanything.\n-5-"
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