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UNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF
TRIPARTITE DINNER MEETING, FEBRUARY 10, 1945, 9 P. M.,
VORONTSOV VILLA 1
PRESENT
UNITED STATES
UNITED KINGDOM
SOVIET UNION
President Roosevelt
Prime Minister Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Secretary Stettinius
Foreign Secretary Eden
Foreign Commissar Mol-
Mr. Bohlen
Major Birse
otov
Mr. Pavlov
Bohlen Collection
Bohlen Minutes
TOP SECRET
1 Churchill acted as host.
Subjects: Reparations from Germany
Communiqué
British and American Politics
Jewish problems
At the beginning of dinner the conversation was general.
THE PRIME MINISTER then proposed a toast to the King of England,
the President of the United States, and to Mr. Kalinin, President of
the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and he asked the President
as the only Head of State present to reply to this toast.
THE PRESIDENT replied that the Prime Minister's toast brought
back many memories-that he recalled the first year as President of
the United States in the summer of 1933. His wife had gone down
in the country to open a school, and on the wall there had been a map
on which there had been a great blank space. He said the teacher
had told his wife that it was forbidden to speak about this place,
and this place had been the Soviet Union. He said he had then
decided to write a letter to Mr. Kalinin asking him to send someone
to the United States to open negotiations for the establishment of
diplomatic relations.
MARSHAL STALIN, in his conversation with Prime Minister Churchill,
emphasized the unsatisfactory nature of the reparations question at
the conference. He said he feared to have to go back to the Soviet
Union and tell the Soviet people they were not going to get any
reparations because the British were opposed to it.
THE PRIME MINISTER said that, on the contrary, he very much
hoped that Russia would receive reparations in large quantities, but
he remembered the last war when they had placed the figure at more
than the capacity of Germany to pay.
MARSHAL STALIN remarked that he thought it would be a good
idea to put some mention of the intention to make Germany pay for
the damage it had caused the Allied Nations, and also some reference
to the Reparations Commission, in the communiqué.
THE PRIME MINISTER and THE PRESIDENT agreed to the inclusion
of these statements in the communiqué.
THE PRIME MINISTER then proposed a toast to the health of
Marshal Stalin. He said he hoped that the Marshal had a warmer
feeling for the British than he had had, and that he felt that the great
victories which his armies had achieved had made him more mellow
and friendly than he had been during the hard times of the war.
He said he hoped that the Marshal realized that he had good and
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