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Line 180: − It was only after [[FDR|Roosevelt]]'s death that Byrnes, by then Secretary of State, would learn—due to "a news story from Moscow," he wrote—"of the full agreement."<ref>James Francis Byrnes, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=OCQqAAAAYAAJ Speaking Frankly]'' (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974) ISBN 0837174805, pp. 42-43</ref>+
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{{cquote|We expected the conference would end that evening and that the President would leave the following day. But that afternoon Stalin requested the President to remain one more day. He said they could not conclude their work and he wished to discuss some matter he deemed important. The President complied.... [T]he protocols... were signed on February 11.
{{cquote|We expected the conference would end that evening and that the President would leave the following day. But that afternoon Stalin requested the President to remain one more day. He said they could not conclude their work and he wished to discuss some matter he deemed important. The President complied.... [T]he protocols... were signed on February 11.
When the President returned, he did not mention it to me and the protocol was kept locked in his safe at the White House.}}
When the President returned, he did not mention it to me and the protocol was kept locked in his safe at the White House.}}
Only after [[FDR|Roosevelt]]'s death would Byrnes, by then Secretary of State, learn—due to "a news story from Moscow," he wrote—of "the full agreement."<ref>James Francis Byrnes, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=OCQqAAAAYAAJ Speaking Frankly]'' (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974) ISBN 0837174805, pp. 42-43</ref>
[[image:Montana de cadaveres en un gulag sovietico.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Mountain of corpses in a Soviet gulag.
[[image:Montana de cadaveres en un gulag sovietico.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Mountain of corpses in a Soviet gulag.