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After that, the Western envoys (Smith, Britain's Frank Roberts and France's Yves Chataigneau) took off for Paris where the U.N. General Assembly was about to meet. All the other principals converged on Paris-from Washington came Secretary of State Marshall, from London Ernie Bevin, from Berlin General Lucius Clay. The visitors were joined by France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. The chief decision they would have to make was whether to continue the delightful talks with Molotov in Paris (if he should decide to come), or whether to throw the Berlin issue into...
Into the Kremlin again went the three men from the West-Walter Bedell Smith of the U.S., Frank Roberts of Britain and Yves Chataigneau of France. They had agreed beforehand on a new proposal for "settling" the Berlin crisis. Smith had their plan in his briefcase. Stalin greeted them genially. Before Smith had a chance to open his case, Stalin said: "Gentlemen, I have a plan. Here it is. I believe you will find it acceptable to your governments." Stalin's plan was almost identical with the one Smith carried. The Russians and the West had reached an agreement...
Smith, Roberts and French Ambassador Yves Chataigneau finally agreed to issue a hold-for-release warning of each Kremlin meeting, and a tipoff on which embassy would be host at the subsequent huddle. This saved legwork in surrounding all three embassies, but produced no real news; correspondents were reduced to cabling analyses (which sometimes disagreed) of the envoys' facial expressions. In five meetings, the press got about 120 noncommittal words out of Smith, less than that out of Roberts, nothing but vague smiles out of Chataigneau, not even a smile out of Molotov...
Smith was one of three Western envoys who, after conferences in Berlin and London, had traveled to Moscow in search of peace. The others were Yves Chataigneau of France and tubby, popular Frank Roberts of Britain's Foreign Office, substituting for Britain's ailing ambassador. Their immediate purpose: to see Foreign Minister Molotov...
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