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...Elizabeth. Arriving in the U.S. for the first time in 8? years, he had serene "greetings" for "the people of the world-famous city of New York, and with them all those in the United States who are in favor of lasting peace, international cooperation and consolidation of friendship." Molotov went sightseeing, had some pleasant comments to make about American paintings in the Metropolitan Museum...
...Gallon Hats. During a three-mile drive through the huge South Side U.S. Steel works, Molotov corrected a detective who told him the plant's annual production was 4,500,000 tons of steel. "No," snapped the well-briefed Foreign Minister...
...trip was not without some unpleasantness. In Omaha an angry crowd of Baltic refugees from Soviet tyranny picketed Molotov's train, and the Russian delegation stayed discreetly aboard. But in Cheyenne, Wyo. the Soviet diplomat hit the high spot of his tour when a reporter from the Denver Post presented him with a ten-gallon hat. The reporter had three Stetsons of different sizes, just to be sure the fit was right. Molotov first tried on a size 7⅛, which was too snug. The newsman offered him a 7½. That was just right. "Thank you. Thank...
Back in New York, French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay told Dulles and Britain's Harold Macmillan another story of how easily Molotov changes hats. In France, on the way to the U.S., Pinay reported, Molotov had also been a regular sunshine boy. During a conversation with Pinay. he had smilingly suggested that in view of German rearmament it would be wise for France to cultivate her relations with Russia. France found that difficult. Pinay replied, because of the Kremlin's strong support of French Communists and their efforts to undermine French democracy. Instantly, the Russian's amiability...
About the shining hour when Molotov was positioning his head into a ten-gallon 'hat in Cheyenne, a second sensational gesture of amiability was areadying in faraway Red China. Time for lotus and light, the Communists evidently concluded from the extraordinary demeanor of Big Brother; time to show the impressionables and the skeptics that Red China too was making headway toward cooperation (and toward such long-sought objectives as U.S. diplomatic recognition and membership...