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After two weeks of vainly trying to settle the Berlin issue in Berlin, Germany's military governors passed the problem back to Moscow. For the eleventh time, the Western envoys went to call on Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. The Russians had agreed "in principle" to lift the Berlin blockade; in practice, they refused to budge. It was obvious by now that the Russians were merely carrying on what T. S. Eliot once called "a tedious argument of insidious intent...
...Zhdanov's 13 military, naval and civilian decorations. 'The open red and black draped coffin rode on a caisson pulled by six jet-black, white-harnessed horses. Zhdanov's mustached, lifeless face was green in the glittering sunlight. Beside the caisson walked Stalin, with Molotov on his right; and behind Stalin, youngish (47), tough Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, with Police Boss Lavrenty Beria on his right...
...cable the proposal to their governments. In Washington, experts sat up all night prodding at the Russian text in search of diplomatic booby traps, found none they considered lethal. They cabled Smith a series of suggested clarifications. He and the others tried to work them out with Foreign Minister Molotov. For a week they wrangled over shades of meaning. A Washington official described the process: "Molotov insists on leaving a few fishhooks in the agreement. We're trying to file the barbs off them." At week's end, they were still trying...
...West had gained during the eight-month interval since the last Foreign Ministers' session. That fact was infinitely more important than Molotov's verbal fishhooks-which, in their nasty way, were important...
...Western envoys had held six conferences with Vyacheslav Molotov. No progress had been made toward lifting the Berlin blockade or toward a four-power conference. This week the representatives of the U.S., Britain and France were finally admitted to a second audience with Stalin. When they emerged, at 1:40 a.m., U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith told newsmen that he expected more talks to be held. Said Smith: "We're always optimistic. We expect the best and prepare for the worst." Stalin gave his guests "tea and cakes," Smith reported...