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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",
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    "ocrText": "I had my still pictures developed by the Army in Berlin, and rushed the\nmovies back to the United States for finishing. I showed the stills to Secretary\nByrnes, and, even though we had all been certain that the removals were being made,\nhe was amazed by their extent. He showed them to Prime Minister Atlee, but he was\nreluctant to show them to Molotov because he feared that the Soviet foreign minister\nwould go into one of his rages, and that this might jeopardize the prospects of an\nacceptable agreement. However, I persuaded him to do so. Molotov's only comment\nwas a curt:\n\"We can't watch everything.\"\nOf all of the arguments at Potsdam, however, none was more vigorously\nprosecuted than the one over the Soviet demand for $20 billion as the total of\nreparations -- the demand which Molotov was still making two years later. As\nheretofore noted, I had tried vainly at Moscow to get Maisky to produce figures\nto support this demand, and he had never done so. At Potsdam, it was the same\nstory. During one session, I said:\n\"Mr. Maisky, you have failed to date to present a single figure, either to\nsupport your $20 billion dollar demand, or to show the total amount of reparations\nto which you think the Soviet Union is entitled. So, for the sake of putting\nsomething on the table for discussion, I am going to submit some figures showing\nthe losses sustained by your country. I will break them down in some detail\n\"\nI then proceeded to present our secret figures on Soviet war losses.\nMaisky's expression became one of complete astonishment. His economic adviser,\nkindly, white-haired Dr. E. S. Varga, looked as though he were going to become\nill. Suddenly, Maisky arose and said nervously:\n-6-"
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