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...deficit economy in which the Russian state had taken possession of a third of all industrial enterprise. Vishinsky painted a different picture of East Germany. Its industrial output, he said, was 96.6% of 1936-more progress than the 90% claimed for West Germany. Britain's Ernest Bevin, cigarette drooping from a corner of his mouth, thanked Vishinsky for "this tableau of Oriental prosperity," promised to bring it to the attention of the "thousands of refugees" from Soviet Germany...
...Paris, where Dean Acheson had been meeting over the weekend with France's Robert Schuman and Britain's Ernie Bevin, the West announced complete solidarity. Acheson, who is in his first major encounter with the Russians, will presumably carry the ball for the West...
...peace treaty for Austria (the Foreign Ministers' deputies have vainly tried to draft an Austrian treaty for the past 2½ years). Vishinsky also suggested that a peace treaty for Japan be taken up, but Acheson countered that the U.S. wished "no hasty consideration" of the question. When Bevin asked whether agreement on Germany would be a precondition for discussing Austria, Vishinsky replied that it was not, and added: "But we are going to agree on everything here...
...That," said Ernest Bevin, "depends...
...based on an informal poll of members of the Overseas Press Club, are the U.S.'s Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, Paul Hoffman, Walter Reuther and Douglas MacArthur; the U.S.S.R.'s Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, Nikoli Bulganin and Lavrenty Beria; Britain's Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Winston Churchill; France's Jacques Duclos and Charles de Gaulle; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, China's Mao Tse-tung, Spain's Francisco Franco, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Israel's Chaim Weizmann, Jordan's King Abdullah, South...