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Leathery, poker-faced U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk, Admiral, U.S.N. (ret.), came home for a holiday visit from his Moscow post, where he had found himself a mariner becalmed in the eye of a hurricane. He slipped in quietly to see Harry Truman, reportedly told the President he could detect "absolutely no evidence" that Russia is about to start...
...capitalist ambassadors like Admiral Kirk, day-to-day travel in the U.S.S.R. is restricted to a 30-mile zone around Moscow. To go beyond, he must have a special pass and travel by a route designated by the government. If he stays at Spasso House, the U.S. embassy, he sees no Russians at all: "They're not allowed to come to the embassy, so there's no contact...
...time, said Kirk, can he shake the four Russian guards assigned for his "protection." They pick him up at the embassy gate and go wherever he goes. Sometimes, to ease the monotony, he gives them cigarettes, he explained. "But don't get the idea," he added scrupulously, "that I'm buddies with those guys...
...they picked is a trim, 47-year-old political scientist and onetime Ohio high-school principal named Grayson L. Kirk, who arrived at Morningside Heights as an associate professor of government only ten years ago. At Columbia, Grayson Kirk soon showed that he was a first-class administrator as well as teacher, with a talent for making things hum. He threw himself into the work of the Academy of Political Science, headed Columbia's Institute of European Studies. He was also a member of the U.S. delegation staff at Dumbarton Oaks and helped set up the U.N. Security Council...
...rest of the defensive squad is Ed Bell (Penn), Hollie Donan (Prince), Lemonick, Gerry Audet, (Col), Tom Johnsoen (Mich), Herb Agocs (Penn), Speare, Bill Kirk (Cor), Lowel Perry (Mich), and Doyne...