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        "Pavlov, Vladimir, 1915-1993",
        "Clay, Lucius D. (Lucius DuBignon), 1897-1978",
        "Leahy, William D. (William Daniel), 1875-1959",
        "Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972",
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        "Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981",
        "Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953",
        "Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945",
        "McCloy, John Jay, 1895-1989",
        "Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich, 1909-",
        "Cadogan, Alexander, Sir, 1884-1968",
        "Sobolev, Arkady Alexandrovich, 1903-1964",
        "Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950",
        "List, Eugene, 1918-1985",
        "Bohlen, Charles E. (Charles Eustis), 1904-1973",
        "Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890-",
        "Davies, Joseph Edward, 1876-1958",
        "Vyshinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich, 1883-1954",
        "Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965",
        "Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967",
        "Pauley, Edwin W. (Edwin Wendell), 1903-1981",
        "Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969",
        "Cherwell, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount, 1886-1957",
        "Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986",
        "Dinners and dining",
        "Piano",
        "Potsdam Conference, 1945"
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    "ocrText": "- 1382 -\nSo\nTRUMAN\n: GOVERN WEEK AND\n95.\nOn the evening following the third afternoon session,\n,\nI\nentertained at a state dinner held in the Little White House.\nGuests at the dinner were Churchill, Stalin, Byrnes, Atlee, Molotov,\nLeahy, Vyshinski, Cadogan, Harriman, Gromyko, Lord Cherwell,\nPauley, Davies, Sobolev, Bohlen, Pavlov, and Major Birse.\nThe menu consisted of pate de foie gras, caviar on toast,\nvodka, cream of tomato soup, celery, olives, perch saute meuniere,\nchilled potatoes, peas, carrots, Bordeaux wine, lettuce and tomato\nsalad, French dressing, Roca cheese, vanilla ice cream, chocolate\nsauce, champagne, demi-tasse, cigars, cigarettes, port wine and cognac.\nThe celery, lettuce, tomatoes, and ice cream were flown in to Babelsberg\nfrom the Augusta at Antwerp.\nMusic was by a special concert orchestra. The pianist,\nSergeant Eugene List, played a special Tschaikowsky theme for Stalin\nand later played his own arrangement of the Missouri Waitzforme.\nand sesual Chopia Stalid was a Chopia for\nList played the great Ab Choping Watto Our Hr"
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