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Before returning to the U.S. for a visit, Ambassador Alan G. Kirk called on Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky to discuss the "present impasse" in Korea. Said Kirk: "The Soviet government must surely recognize that, as a simple statement of fact, the breakdown of armistice talks in Korea would add greatly to the explosive character of the situation, and might stimulate a course of events which would be undesirable from the point of view of both our governments...
...statement differed little in tone from any other recent U.S.-Soviet exchange. But Vishinsky's reaction illuminated a changed atmosphere in U.S.-Soviet relations. Was that a threat? demanded Vishinsky. No, said Kirk, only a fact. A confident U.S. spokesman offering reassurances to a nervous Russian was something new to the postwar scene...
...Confidence. Vishinsky's formal reply to Kirk contained the usual Soviet opium, but ended with a hope of better U.S.-Russian relations. Washington did not take this Soviet olive branch at face value, but it recognized that the Kremlin probably does want a slackening of international tension...
...suffers most is Detective McLeod (Kirk Douglas), a stickler for justice untempered by mercy, who bears down on a confused first offender as sadistically as he hounds a criminal abortionist. His life is dedicated in about equal parts to the remorseless pursuit of wrongdoers and to the love of his young wife (Eleanor Parker). Then he learns that she was one of the abortionist's patients before he married...
Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS) continues its salute to Oscar Hammerstein, starring Gertrude Lawrence, Lisa Kirk, Richard Rodgers, Dolores Gray...