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...third--and last--world war were important gains and that a continual creative approach in diplomacy indicated by the atoms-for-peace and "open skies" disarmament plan, was after all the best one. Thus, it urged that a realistic view of Soviet aims need not prevent the development of East-West contacts: trade with Russia in non-strategic materials and the exchange of professors and students between the two countries, as well as the avoidance of automatic skepticism, were stressed. "The type of label-thinking which has characterized this country's official view towards the Soviet Union is becoming...
...import-export firms which the party has set up or taken over to handle Soviet-bloc trade in Italy. Italian businessmen rapidly found out that the only sure way of doing business east of the Iron Curtain was to let these Red companies handle their trade. By last year, U.S. experts estimate, the firms handled more than half of Italy's $123 million East-West trade...
...exposed the harsh Communist behind the beaming clown. His denunciation of Social Democrats played hob with the Communists' seductive pleas for a Popular Front (see box); his truculent assertion of Russian nuclear capacity spoiled his peace-loving professions, and stole the play from his skillful offer of profitable East-West trade. The British consensus is that Georgy Malenkov is an able fellow and Bulganin an amiable second-rater, but that Khrushchev is a crude, crafty and headlong ruler who must be watched and cannot be trusted...
...West Germany's Supreme Court ruled that the nation's onetime spy boss, jittery Otto John, 47, whose confused East-West loyalties led him to use the Iron Curtain as a revolving door, must stay in prison and there await trial for treason...
Before any effective increase occurs, the U.S. will have to show itself willing to initiate significant measures to release the cramp in East-West commerce. The latest "relaxation" is nothing but a scrap thrown to clamoring critics in an effort to pacify them. Much more will have to be done before the Administration can pose as anxious to thaw frozen channels of trade...