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...Time Has Come." In a sense, there never had been a conference in London at all. Vyacheslav Molotov had not come to confer. The Russians, fully aware that the Western powers would not agree to treaties that gave Russia control of central Europe, had another end in view. Molotov had come to make propaganda, mostly addressed to the Germans. The climax came on the 16th day at the table. Molotov started off with his usual sputter of accusations against the West. Said George Marshall: "Perversion and deliberate misconstruction. . . ." Then he again demanded a clear statement of Soviet policy. Said Molotov...
...would have been forced to continue wading through the marsh of statistics, accusations and debaters' petty triumphs. Although Marshall and Bevin wanted German and Austrian treaties with the Russians, they knew as well as Molotov that the real purpose of the London meeting was not to confer but to propagandize. Marshall's words and tactics at the table made it clear that what he sought there (agreement being impossible) was world understanding of the misunderstanding. He was trying to demonstrate once & for all that true negotiations with the Russians were not possible, and that fake negotiations, based...
...bumbling U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark was considering contempt proceedings. Asked for his reaction on such a step, Secretary Marshall pointed out that the affair has aroused "considerable concern" in Canada. That was enough for Clark. Instead of contempt crackdowns, he sent top Department officials to Ottawa to confer with Canadian newsprint interests...
...Confer with Durant...
...trip west. Ostensibly, the trip was a vacation to visit his wife's family in Sapulpa, Okla., his mother in Owosso, Mich, and to show his sons some of the grandeur of the West. Actually, as eleven reporters traveling with him knew, it was a chance to confer with dozens of G.O.P. national committeemen, make news at the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City, and line up Dewey delegates for the Philadelphia convention next June. Tom Dewey at last was out in the open...