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    "ocrText": "- 3 -\nsaid that he shook hands with him and that he seemed nervous.\nThey concluded that the CHURCHILL's defeat was due to a large\nextent to the armed forces being against him and the fact that\nBeaverbrook and Brendon Bracken got him off on a limb on domestic\nissues. COHEN said that SHIRES (ISATAH BERLIN) didn't get over\nand PRICHARD said he is at Oxford. They speculated as to who\nwill be the British Ambassador to this country.\nIn a discussion of the British elections COHEN and\nPRICHARD agreed that the government there now is good; that BEVAN\nwill be good, although not wonderful. PRICHARD asked how BEVAN\nacted at Potsdam. COHEN said all right, but \"some of our people\nwere critical of him, in that they were very fond of CHURCHILL\nand felt that BEVAN hung to some small points too long. Regarding\nATTLEE, under questioning by PRICHARD, COHEN said, \"It was awfully\nhard (for him), because he stood SO much in the background in the\nearly part and then was supposed to take over. He's an insignifi-\ncant little person, anyway. But he did all right.\" COHEN said\nthat he felt that all our delegation wanted CHURCHILL to win.\nCOHEN said that he saw \"LULU\" (DR. LUDWIK RAJCHMAN).\nPRICHARD interrupted him, at this point, saying, \"Oh, did you?\nBy the way, you remember your last letter you wrote me about\nOSCAR LANGE (DR. OSCAR LANGE, professor at University of Chicago)?\nCOHEN remembered. PRICHARD continued, \"I had already told him\nthat before I ever cabled you.' COHEN said, \"I mean, I\n(indistinct) or put out by his letter to you. He phoned me, to-\nday, and wanted to come and see me, and I said, 'I had to see you,\nbut I thought his matter easy should approach the irregular chan-\nnels. 111 PRICHARD: \"Well, I told him that. What I did was\nCOHEN interrupted, saying, \"I mean, I was very happy. I mean, if\nhe really wants my personal opinion-- - but if you want to know what\nthe others will --this or that can't do that, and I don't\nwant to do it.\nPRICHARD said, \"I was a little put out by his letter,\ntoo, and I wrote him and told him that before I ever wrote you.\nI just told him that as a courtesy I would send his letter to you,\nbut I never had any idea that you'd answer it any way except the\nway you did, and I wrote him and told him that before I ever wrote\nyou. I figured you'd be mad at me. COHEN: \"No. I was a little\nmad at you on the first cable on \"LULU\" (RAJCHMAN). \" PRICHARD\nasked why, and COHEN said, \"Well, I thought that, one, I couldn't\nI didn't want to do anything until we heard from the other side,\nand I thought that if anything was to be done, DEAN (ACHESON)\nshould. He (DEAN) was in a position to cable. I couldn't say,\nand you know JIMMY (BYRNES) wouldn't do anything (such as) cabling\nback to the department that he heard from someone on the outside\nthat they weren't following through. I mean, I didn't even speak\nto him (BYRNES) about it. That is, I just thought it would make\nthings worse. I was happy when \"LULU\" appeared on the scene.\"\n\"\nPRICHARD: \"Well, they finally did (State Department finally\ncleared him, so he could leave the United States), but they held"
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