Word: answers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manner also new to modern diplomacy, the U.S. had seized on an omission in Stalin's reply to U.S. Newspaperman Kingsbury Smith. Smith had asked what Stalin's terms were for calling off the blockade. Stalin's answer made no men tion of the issue of Berlin's currency, his major earlier demand. In the U.N. lounge, Jessup met Malik and asked: Was the omission accidental? Malik said he would find...
Park Avenue Talk. It was a month before the answer came: it was "not accidental." The Russians were willing to lift the blockade first, settle the currency problem at a meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. Thus began a series of guardedly friendly talks between Malik and Jessup in the Russian U.N. headquarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue. At week's end, they had informally discussed lifting the blockade, perhaps by May 15, had agreed to the U.S.S.R.'s single string to the offer: a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, probably in Paris...
...Less Freely." It was a blunt question and, by diplomatic standards, it got a blunt, affirmative answer. Replied Acheson: "There is something in this treaty that requires every member of the Senate, if you ratify it, when he comes to vote on military assistance, to exercise his judgment less freely than he would have exercised it if there had not been this treaty...
...preferred a little less candor from the Secretary of State. Many a Senate fence-straddler, like Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, was willing to buy the pact if he could dodge paying the arms bill later. Pussyfooting Tom Connally thought Acheson went "a little too far," in his answer; a Senator's only voting guide was his "conviction and conscience." Vandenberg was afraid the Senate was getting its "eyes glued on a few million dollars' worth of rifles and knapsacks" instead of the treaty itself...
Sleuth Root, though $25 richer, is still puzzled as to what the correct solution is. It appears as if either there is no true answer, or the Herald just isn't telling...