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A momentous conference: the first meeting of the Big Three at Potsdam..The first official conference of the heads of government of the United Kingdom, United States and the Soviet Union..July 17th 1945..Reading clockwise from Winston Churchill, centre far side of the table, Major A H Birse, interpreter, (behind is Sir A Clark Kerr, British Ambassador in Moscow) Mr Attlee, next but one, Molotov, behind him M Gusev ( Russian Ambassador in London) Stalin, fifth from Stalin, President Truman, third on his left, Sir Alexander Cadogan, and Mr Anthony Eden.......©2004 Topfoto (KEYSTONE/UNITED ARCHIVES)