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From the start at San Francisco, the Russians left no doubt that they were out to wreck or delay the peace conference. Even before Conference President Dean Acheson finished his opening remarks from the stage of the gilt and red plush Opera House, Andrei Gromyko was demanding to be heard. Why, he wanted to know, had Red China not been invited? Calmly, Acheson declared that the Russian delegate was out of order. Two hours and eleven Red protests later, Gromyko's chance for a filibuster was gone. The conference had adopted a rule limiting each delegation...
...October 1947, Andrei Zhdanov laid down the line at the first meeting of the Cominform. The U.S., said Zhdanov, had launched "an aggressive and openly expansionist policy" aimed at the "preparation of a new imperialist war." He added significantly: "Between the wish of the imperialists to loose a new war and the possibility of organizing such a war, there lies a vast distance...
...Andrei Gromyko is not a funny man, but off the speaker's platform he often does what he can to be agreeable. At the diplomatic reception at San Francisco's Palace Hotel last week, the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister's small talk consisted largely of terse platitudes on the weather, a grunted "no comment" in answer to searching questions, and an occasional joke, filed away during his earlier visits to the U.S. One of his favorites...
...That," says Andrei Gromyko stonily, "is very good, very clever...
...jarring note at the family reunion was supplied, as usual, by the Russians, who took advance counsel with no one. Swarthy, cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko led his 39-man crew off their two private Pullmans at the Oakland mole. They had come directly across the U.S. from Manhattan, without the customary protocol swing through Washington. Gromyko was stopped momentarily when a grey-haired little woman thrust a bunch of red roses into his arms. Then he retreated, in a private limousine flying the hammer & sickle, to the 39-room mansion erected by California's railroad-building Crocker family...