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TUE 19 OCT 1943War day 1,510Eastern Front
The ministers met at four in the afternoon. Before long, the agenda had reached from northern France to Turkish entry into the war.
The Moscow Conference’s first regular meeting of the three foreign ministers began at 4 p.m. on 19 October 1943. The evening before, Cordell Hull and Anthony Eden had called on Vyacheslav Molotov to discuss procedure and publicity. The call was cordial. On the 19th, Eden conferred with Hull at noon; Molotov called on Hull at 2:30 p.m. The formal session admitted only the three ministers and senior representatives of their governments. The Soviet Government had provided Hull with an armored limousine with bullet-proof glass.
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