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[Off camera]: All right, sir, you were going to tell us a story about Queen Victoria and the Czar.
Well--  ...at my convenience, and I told him I had not yet become thoroughly seated in the presidential chair,
and as soon as I got things straightened out I'd be glad to come and talk with him.
I was rather doubtful about the Russian situation, because Queen Victoria had made a statement
after 60 years as Queen of Great Britain
and Ireland, that she wished that she were a man
so she could go to Russia and give them the necessary going over so they would keep their agreements.
So you see, it was customary in those days for the Russians to break their agreements.
We all had an idea that maybe the Bolsheviks when they got control of that country might be more reliable.
But they turned out to be less reliable, if that's at all possible.
But I finally got things in shape so I could go to Potsdam--
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...I had a house over there, which they called the White House but it wasn't white, it was yellow.
And I don't know whether that had any effect on the conference or not, that color.
At any rate, we went to work and did the best that we possibly could.
There was another incident that took place along little later in the conference
that was an interesting one in which it was--
the discussion was on the government for Poland at that time, and--
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...which showed exactly how his mind ran. He had to be turned out as--just as his character was shown
at that time that he had to be forced to keep any agreements that he kept.
He broke 16 agreements that were made at Yalta,
and he broke 32 agreements that were made at Potsdam; 48 all together.
Never kept a single one of them.
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