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Last week Andrei Andreevich Gromyko said he was going home. The Kremlin had something else for him to do (if he knew, Gromyko didn't say what), and his place as chief Soviet delegate at U.N. would go to a new man. Grinned New York's Daily News: "Here's your hat, Gromy . . . We'll try to bear...
Americans had been watching Andrei Gromyko, off & on, for nine years, ever since he arrived in Washington in 1939, a tall, dark, diffident young man with darting, unfixed eyes. He had not changed much, just grown a little heavier; his brief smiles (which at first made his new diplomatic acquaintances feel they might somehow "get across" to this Russian) were briefer than before. He would leave his name behind in the U.S. vernacular: "to pull a gromyko"-meaning, variously, to walk out or to be a robot reiterating the reflexive...
...Gromyko had never got across to Americans, nor they to him, apparently. He was the prototype of the "new man" that Lenin's revolution had promised. The armor-plating was part of the pattern. If his residence in the U.S. had taught him anything different from what his Communist ideology required him to believe, that was, and for safety's sake would remain, his secret...
...killed world atom control? One after another, the delegates of seven nations-France, the U.S., Britain, Canada, Belgium, China, Colombia-pointed at Soviet Russia. Andrei Gromyko objected, claimed that all avenues to agreement had not been explored. This attitude was necessary for the sake of Moscow's propaganda claims that the West, not Russia, had sabotaged international agreement...
Delegates disagreed with Gromyko; they had been exhausting a series of Soviet proposals since A.E.C.'s inception. All Russian proposals had had two main ingredients : 1) the U.S. would have to stop making bombs and get rid of its stockpile at once; and 2) the control (or even the inspection) of Soviet atomic plants by a true international agency would be an interference with Soviet "sovereignty." The Russians wanted no one to have any secrets-except the Russians. Chided the majority-backed resolution, in the understatement of the year: "Secrecy in the field of atomic energy is not compatible...