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Last week, Russian Security Council Delegate Andrei Gromyko and U.S. Delegate Warren Austin were engaged in a verbal pillow fight that was not easy to connect with the basic policies of their countries. Gromyko seemed to be pleading for immediate consideration of general disarmament, atoms & all, while Austin seemed to be insisting that discussion of the Report of the Atomic Energy Commission be separated from any other subject...
Sweet & Sour. Readers who followed Molotov, Gromyko & Co. through recent international conferences will recognize the exasperating Soviet sweet-sour game, though in 1943-45 the exasperation was probably not all one-sided. The U.S. had reservations, too (e.g., U.S. airmen were briefed to destroy certain devices and documents in the event of forced landings on Russian soil). But, as allies go, the U.S. was certainly openhanded-and in return, its chief representative was snubbed, given the runaround, even scolded. "I was in a high dudgeon much of the time," says General Deane...
...Only Gromyko, whose shrewd, stubborn in-fighting for Russian views was rewarded this week by a promotion to Deputy Foreign Minister, publicly and directly questioned Baruch's interpretation. Said he: "What the representative of the U.S. proposes actually is a revision of the [U.N.] Charter. The fact that the American proposal provides for a voluntary relinquishment of the so-called 'veto' . . . does not change the situation." But this was a milder Soviet objection than many previous ones...
...Goats of the Year were Alexander Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Alvanley Johnston of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. * Sample quote of 1946: "The American eagle sits on his perch, a large strong bird with formidable beak and claws. There he sits, motionless, and Mr. Gromyko is sent every day to prod him with a sharp sickle, now on his beak, now under his wing, now in his tail feathers. All the time the eagle keeps quite still. But it would be a great mistake to suppose that nothing is going on inside the breast...
From Russia: An invitation for spokesmen of the Soviet Union to participate in the Institute was extended twelve weeks ago through Andrei Gromyko, its delegate on the United Nations Security Council. The invitation has been repeated in cables to Moscow. At press time of this issue, no acknowledgment had been received...