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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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    "ocrText": "the Americans and British were subsidizing their zones to an equal amount annually.\nThus, as Mr. Ginsburg pointed out: \"If the Soviets had carried out their Potsdam\nobligations, a substantial part, although not all, of the goods which they took\nwould either have been distributed within Germany in such manner as to reduce\nessential import requirements, or would have been exported and sold abroad so that\nthe proceeds would have been contributed to a common pool in reduction of the\namount of the deficit. The substance of the transaction is that American and\nBritish taxpayers have paid for a good portion of the $500,000,000 of current reparations\nfor Russian consumers.\"\nThough they had received in addition, by Mr. Molotov's own statement,\n$7,500,000 of goods from the western zones, on an exchange basis, even up to the\ntime when this was written, they had not delivered the food and raw materials which\nthey agreed to furnish as their part of the exchange.\nIn addition, the Soviets had failed to carry out their obligation to destroy\nor remove direct war plants from their zone; but had, on the contrary, been\noperating some of the more important of these war plants, including those making\njet propulsion and guided rocket missiles, as \"Soviet state industries.\"\nWell, certainly no one will deny that support of the Germans is costly. We\nhave been spending a quarter-billion dollars annually for this purpose, and the\nBritish have been spending a similar sum in their zone. But, may I call attention\nto the fact that war is a bit on the costly side, too? Our own war cost has been\nofficially estimated at $330 billion, that of the British at $120 billion, the\nFrench at $192 billion, and the Germans at $272 billion. The Soviets, hardest\n-9-"
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