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    "ocrText": "TOD\n- 2\nIn this brief statement I have attempted to set forth the manner in\nwhich President Roosevelt sought to achieve his objectives. In doing so\nI\nhave drawn heavily on my personal experiences. After being involved in our\nrearmament program beginning June 1940, I was sent by President Roosevelt to\nLondon in March of 19h1 as his special representative for assistance to\nGreat Britain. From October 1943 until January 1946 I was Ambassador to the\ndune\nSoviet Union. Prior to this appointment President Roosevelt had sent me on\nseveral special missions. The first was in September of 19h1, when I went\nto Moscow with Lord Beaverbrook as Chairman of the President's Special\nMission to the Soviet Union. In August 1942 I represented President Roosevelt\nat the first meeting of Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin in Moscow.\nI was with Secretary of State Hull at the Moscow Conference in October of\n1943. I attended all but one of the conferences between President Roosevelt\nand Prime Minister Churchill, and all of the conferences between the United\nStates, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union -- Teheran in December 1943,\nYalta in February 1945, and Potsdan in July of 1945. I also attended the\nmeeting between Churchill and Stalin in Moscow in October 19h4. I was in\nSan Francisco for a few weeks during the United Nations Conference in April\nand May of 1945. Throughout the war I had innumerable personal talks with\nChurchill and many discussions with Stalin.\nThe primary objective of the American and British governments in our\nrelations with the Soviet Union during the war was to keep the Soviet Army\nas an effective fighting force against Hitler. We sought to do this through\nthe shipment of essential supplies and through the coordination of our\nmilitary strategy. Supplies began to flow shortly after the discussions\nLord Beaverbrook and I had with Stalin in Moscow in September of 19h1 The\n260\nyur"
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