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Early last year a 14-man committee of prominent Quakers began a study of the cold war. They talked things over with high U.S. diplomatic officials and with such visiting Soviet bigwigs as Andrei Gromyko and Jacob Malik. Last week the Quaker proposal, a 28-page report, was delivered to Secretary of State Dean Acheson and to Soviet Ambassador Alexander S. Panyushkin...
...Third General Assembly closed last week on a note of hope. It took credit for the fact that its soothing, pale-green lounge had provided a common meeting ground for the U.S.'s Philip Jessup and Russia's Jakov Malik when they began negotiating the Berlin blockade's end. Actually the job the Assembly had done was middling. It had (among other things) admitted Israel to U.N.; defeated a Latin American motion to lift the diplomatic boycott of Spain; again asked the Big Five to curb their veto. Perhaps the most significant measure-though it had little...
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...
...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...
...hour and a half later the conference ended; Malik, Chauvel and Cadogan departed. Less than an hour later Malik called back by telephone. Russia had agreed to final details on the lifting of the blockade...