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Hotels had allotted 1% of their transient space (625 rooms) to delegates, but problems still arose. At the dignified Plaza, onetime haunt of the late F. Scott Fitzgerald, bullet-headed Soviet agents looked for a room for Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, turned down one with a balcony for fear a capitalist might rope his way up to the window with a roscoe. China's Victor Hoo knocked at the wrong room at the Waldorf-Astoria, was handed a bundle of laundry, had to exercise the utmost diplomacy to get the woman inside to take it back...
...They are still giving "little more than lip service" to the faith in private enterprise they profess. Economic freedom in the U.S., said he bluntly, is still "the privilege of a few individuals." If capitalism is to prevail, it must be possible "for every man to call himself a Capitalist." Every man must have a financial stake in capitalism...
...made no reply. But at week's end came news that he had applied to the State Department for a passport to Russia. No one knew for sure whether his purpose was to ask the Soviet Union for reinstatement as a Communist or to exploit it as a capitalist...
...Enemy, Capitalism. Candidate Lazar M. Kaganovich asserted flatly: "We are still within the capitalist encirclement." Candidate Viacheslav Molotov warned: Russia is watchful of "possible hotbeds . . . intrigues against international security. . . . Everything must be done to make the Red Army as good as the armies of other countries...
Stalin's speech contained no threats. It was dry in tone, defensive in content. But its truculent exaggeration of the danger of attack from the capitalist world was the most warlike pronouncement uttered by any top-rank statesman since V-J Day. The world Communist line, "soft" during the war, has been gradually hardening into a return to the tactics and slogans of world revolution. Comrades everywhere could be expected to take a tip from Uncle Joe's speech and sharpen their opposition to non-Communist governments...