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...year-old Sally Davies, daughter of Ernest Davies, Britain's delegate to the four-power conference that ended in Paris last week (see above), had written her father asking him if he could bring Andrei Gromyko back to her as a present. Delegate Davies couldn't, but Britain's irrepressible Columnist Nat Gubbins promptly seized on the idea as perfect punishment for the man whose evasive doubletalk had left the West's representatives limp with frustration. Last week in his Sunday Express column, Gubbins gave a terrifying picture of what Sally might do to Gromyko...
Britain's Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ernest Davies, who has been tarrying in Paris at the Council of Foreign Ministers session hamstrung by Russia's Andrei Gromyko, got a request from his six-year-old daughter in London: "If you are coming home on Saturday will you bring Mr. Gromyko cors I love him and think he looks very nice . . . Love Sally...
After ten weeks, 50 sessions, an estimated 3,000,000 words, the Foreign Ministers' deputies, meeting in Paris to write an agenda for a Big Four conference, had just about talked themselves out. Even Andrei Gromyko knew there was nothing more to say: one day last week, he spoke for exactly one minute. But still neither side dared make the first move to the door. The talk trickled...
...final, before 18,000 fans, including Andrei Gromyko, the Russians ran into trouble: a stonewall defense thrown up by the stubborn Czechs (normal defense: man-to-man). And before it was over, as everyone had expected, the Russians got involved in a stirring row with the officials...
Died. Colonel General Vasily Vasilie-vich Ulrich, 62, who as presiding judge of the Moscow purge trials in the '305 teamed up with Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky to doom scores of erstwhile comrades, won for himself the tag of "Stalin's Executioner," the reputation of having pronounced more death sentences than any other "jurist" alive; of undisclosed causes; in Moscow...