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...Johnson had become annoyed by the North Vietnamese penchant for making proposals through the press rather than through diplomatic channels. At the President's orders, Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach called in Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and delivered a caustic protest over Tass's violation of diplomatic etiquette. At the White House Presidential Press Secretary George Christian said: "Those acting in good faith will not seek to make this a matter of propaganda...
Nonetheless, the U.S. kept probing for the answer, and its efforts resulted in a week of considerable motion but little evident movement. There were rumors that serious talks on Viet Nam were under way in Moscow, and the fact that Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin hurried home after two lengthy talks with Secretary of State Dean Rusk seemed to lend credence to them (though the Russians insisted that Dobrynin had gone home to see his ailing father-in-law). In Warsaw, U.S. Ambassador to Poland John Gronouski met with Chinese diplomats for the first time in seven months, but no news...
Moscow provided baggy civilian suits and political sanctuary for the four, prompting the U.S. to summon Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin to the State Department, where Deputy Under Secretary of State Foy D. Kohler orally protested the "highly improper" Soviet behavior of "assisting, harboring and exploiting" the men. "Such conduct cannot fail to complicate further the relations between our two countries," said Kohler. At the request of the four men, according to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, access to them was denied U.S. embassy representatives and Western newsmen...
After lunch Dobrynin strolled through the Yard on a short tour with William G. Anderson '39, University Marshal. Under the Harvard, American, and Russian flags raised in his honor, Dobrynin stopped to joke with associates and reporters. One of his party offered the ambassador's autograph to the few who recognized Dobrynin...
...Dobrynin arrived in Boston shortly after noon Sunday. With host Jose de Valon '38, a Boston businessman, he went sight-seeing and visited B.C. Sunday and toured M.I.T. yesterday morning. He left by plane for Washington last night...