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...belongs to the Duchess de Talleyrand-Périgord, formerly Countess de Castellane, formerly Anna Gould. Furniture movers, electricians and telephone men were hard at work to get everything ready. No less hard at work were the Foreign Ministers' advance guard-U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup, Britain's Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, France's Alexandre Parodi-in an attempt to "harmonize" their nations' views on what ought to be the West's strategy...
...Telephone. That evening and through the next day Jessup waited for his reply. In other offices in Manhattan, France's Jean Chauvel and Britain's Alexander Cadogan also waited. At 6 p.m. on Tuesday, a little man named O. A. Tro-yanovsky, whose father had been the first Soviet ambassador appointed to the U.S., arrived at Jessup's office with Malik's reply...
There was momentary confusion; Malik's letter was written in Russian. Aides found a translator. Finally, Jessup got on the telephone. He passed the word to Cadogan and Chauvel that Malik had agreed to meet with them. The first meeting of Four Power spokesmen since last winter's fruitless discussions in Geneva on the subject of the Berlin blockade was set for 12:30 the next...
...Elevator. The next day newsmen and photographers packed the lobby of the office building at 2 Park Avenue. Jessup was already in his headquarters on the 23rd floor. Chauvel and Cadogan threaded their way through the crush and into the elevator. In Jessup's modest green and brown office, American, Briton and Frenchman had only a few minutes' wait. At 12:31 the door to Jessup's office was thrown open. There, nodding, was burly Yakov Malik, his smile the beaming equivalent of the Russian for "Hello...
...Jessup sent out for a chicken sandwich and a cup of coffee and relaxed. At least for the moment, the most immediately hazardous threat to world peace had been removed. In Paris, at the end of May, the U.S. would get a better idea of what the man on the other side of the open door was thinking, what was behind his "Hello...