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...Foreign Ministers filed into the conference room for their 44th, and final, session at 4 p.m., everything had been said that could be said. Molotov plodded over the familiar ground, trying to explain Russia's refusal to join the U.S. in a 40-year demilitarization treaty on Germany. Bevin, in the chair, looked at Marshall. "Any comment?" he asked. "No comment," said Marshall. Molotov again summed up Russia's demands for all property seized by the Germans in Austria. "Any comment?" asked Bevin. "No comment," said Marshall...
...Germany (with a June 1 deadline for agreement on the size of forces), the Foreign Ministers said the polite things one says to his host. Marshall smilingly thanked Molotov for keeping chain-smoking U.S. Adviser Ben Cohen in cigarets. As Cohen blushed and glanced at his plateful of butts, Bevin said, "Well, we can help on that too," tossed Cohen a pack of English cigarets. At 7:35, with a round of handshaking, the conference adjourned...
...conference drew to a weary close, one agreement was reached that lighted up the new situation: Secretary Marshall and Foreign Ministers Bevin and Bidault concluded an agreement giving France coal from British and U.S. occupation zones of Germany. This was further evidence that the U.S. really meant to help build and guarantee a stable Europe (see below). Such moves as the French coal pact would speak more persuasively to the Russians than all the voices in all the conference rooms...
...Some top Laborites would also be pinched. Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood are heavy cigaret smokers. Clement Attlee smokes a pipe. Sir Stafford Cripps, despite his dietary austerity, likes a pipe, a cigaret or a cigar...
Three weeks ago, Ernie Bevin appealed to Stalin himself to let the wives go. It would be "very difficult," said Stalin, to reverse a decree of the Supreme Soviet. "It is clear," wrote the thoughtful Manchester Guardian, "that he [Good-willer Kuznetsov] thought it a very trivial matter. He could hardly be more mistaken. The truth is that to the great majority of Englishmen this means a much simpler test of the virtues and vices of the Soviet system than all the five-year plans and statistics which have come out of Russia...