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ask you about it, because it's a big hodge podge of myth right now. What reality we can bring out of it, I don't know.

Perkins:

Well, of course, we never got a clear and complete report. When I say “we”, I mean the members of the Cabinet. We never got a clear report on Yalta. He made his report to the Congress. He had not then talked to the Cabinet.

Q:

He apparently did not discuss Yalta at the March 9 meeting of Cabinet. I assume that was the next one. Wickard was pretty religous about Cabinet meetings - he noted that the President looked thinner and lacked zest, talked about the mandated islands in the Pacific, whether we should keep them, and the rest of it was about F.A.O. and Wickard's own problems.

Perkins:

We did get - now I've lost my thread - we didn't get what would be called a full report of the President to the Cabinet about what happened at Yalta, and how they did business, because this was still all very secret stuff. Naturally, you know.

Q:

Yet he gave you a full account of the Atlantic Charter.

Perkins:

Yes, but that was meant for publicity. That was





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