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...disgraced Comrade who (by his own admission) spoke only 40 words of Russian, Earl Russell Browder was doing all right...
Serenely ensconced in a luxurious, three-room suite at the super-ritzy Hotel Moscow, he talked amiably to U.S. correspondents. He had had several long talks with Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky, Soviet Information Chief, and had called on Foreign Minister Molotov. Purred Browder: "I have been received like an old and trusted friend of the Soviet Union...
...Friend Browder's desk, reporters noted a traveling chess board. Said he chattily: "I like to wrestle with chess problems." This was in the best Communist tradition (Marx, Lenin and Trotsky had all been rabid chess strategists); but Communism's most perplexing chess problem was still Earl himself...
Monday dawned, and Moscow still said nothing of Earl Browder's whereabouts. Brooks Atkinson cabled to the New York Times: "He has had sufficient time to reach Moscow, unpack his bag, shave, take a bath. . . . This bureau's staff of efficient secretaries, couriers, chauffeurs and writers-in that order of relative importance -cannot locate Earl. Let us know if you hear anything...
Then, on the sixth day of waiting, Reuters flashed the bare news that Browder was actually in the Russian capital. Disappointed U.S. Communists gathered that he was sound of limb. But, still uninformed of what he was up to in Moscow, they might have to sweat out some more of Browder's lost weekends before he returns to his "Service for Policy Makers...