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it be known. He had been a court stenographer in his youth, you know, and he had some of this skill left, and he made notes of this kind.

Q:

Are these things that have just recently (1955) been revealed in Byrnes' notes?

Perkins:

Well, these things that have just recently been revealed were the full report of what happened at Yalta, from the President, from the State Department officials that were there, from everybody that was there - it all was turned in to the State Department Archives. They were not Byrnes's notes. I don't think Byrnes's notes were included, although they may have been.

Q:

I wonder where they are, if they aren't in there.

Perkins:

Well, he wrote a book about it.

Q:

Yes, but the book was thin stuff.

Perkins:

Well, I always thought that Byrnes probably had a very thin view of the Conference, that he didn't know what was going on. He didn't fully appreciate what was being dealt with. You know, Byrnes is a very peculiar man, and when he flew away from London and up to Moscow to see Stalin





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