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After four months and well over 3,000,000 words of largely useless talk, the West finally decided to call it quits. At the 74th meeting of the deputies' conference in Paris last week, Russia's Gromyko as usual denounced the West, called its arguments "nonsense." The French translator picturesquely rendered the word as "blablabla." Then Britain's Ernest Davies calmly served notice that the West would take no more of the Russian's "blablabla...
...Gromyko did not get it, announced that he would make a statement at the next meeting. Davies gently explained that there would be no next meeting. Then Gromyko understood, loosed a final 30-page blast at the West, and made his farewells. Said he to the U.S.'s Philip Jessup, shaking hands politely: "See you soon." Said Jessup: "In Washington, I hope." Said Gromyko to Davies: "I hope you have a nice trip across [the Channel...
...year-old Sally Davies, daughter of Ernest Davies, Britain's delegate to the four-power conference that ended in Paris last week (see above), had written her father asking him if he could bring Andrei Gromyko back to her as a present. Delegate Davies couldn't, but Britain's irrepressible Columnist Nat Gubbins promptly seized on the idea as perfect punishment for the man whose evasive doubletalk had left the West's representatives limp with frustration. Last week in his Sunday Express column, Gubbins gave a terrifying picture of what Sally might do to Gromyko...
...Exit Gromyko, breathing hard...
Britain's Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ernest Davies, who has been tarrying in Paris at the Council of Foreign Ministers session hamstrung by Russia's Andrei Gromyko, got a request from his six-year-old daughter in London: "If you are coming home on Saturday will you bring Mr. Gromyko cors I love him and think he looks very nice . . . Love Sally...