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...Moscow, Envoy Harriman operated smoothly out of a tiny improvised office facing the courtyard on the ninth floor of the U.S. embassy. The only extra furnishings were a portrait of George Washington and two extra chairs, one of which was shoved into the open doorway by his secretary. Since the office is usually a waiting room, many a surprised visitor tried to vault the chair. During the mornings...
Beyond Moscow. The optimism was nourished by a dazzling display of Soviet amiability (see THE WORLD). Even so seasoned a veteran of diplomatic dealings with the Russians as the U.S.'s Special Envoy W. Averell Harriman was impressed with the signs of thaw. And Harriman, having served as ambassador to Stalin's Russia from 1943 to 1946 and on missions to Moscow on other occasions, surely knows well the wisdom of Demosthenes' counsel...
...telephone equipment, for the "hot line" that is to link the White House and the Kremlin in emergencies. At the first meeting, Harriman, 71, was greeted by Khrushchev with a cheery "You're absolutely blooming. What are you doing, counting your years backward?" When Britain's top envoy, Viscount Hailsham, said that Moscow's weather was better than London's, Khrushchev replied: "We could perhaps find some place for you here. You could be an internee...
...diplomats were expected to be aware of all phases of diplomacy before they came to Washington. Not so today. They need help, and this is what I am here for." One highly important help is Sevilla-Sacasa's method for introducing a newly arrived ambassador to the other envoys. It used to be that a new ambassador was required to call upon each chief of mission separately as soon as possible after arriving at his post. In Washington today, a new envoy working at the rate of one call a day would have to devote five months to meeting...
...Issues. As he flew off to Moscow for another round of test-ban talks, Presidential Envoy Averell Harriman noted hopefully that Russia was being more pleasant in "the small things of life." As for the big things, "we are going in good faith and in the hope of achieving some steps that will be beneficial." The principal issues facing Harriman and his fellow negotiator, British Minister of Science Viscount Hailsham, in Moscow...