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Vague Exceptions. The best measure of the West's advance was the way the Communists struck back before the ink was dry on the London agreement. Cunningly, the Kremlin sent Vyacheslav Molotov to Berlin with a newly tailored model of the old maneuver for Big Four talks on Germany. This time, said Molotov, Russia would be willing to discuss-though not necessarily to agree to-"free all-German elections." This held out to the Germans hope of unity, which all ardently desire, while offering the French a fresh excuse to delay still longer their agonizing decision over Germany...
...junta consists of Premier Georgy Malenkov ("full of old-fashioned grace"), Nikita Khrushchev ("hail fellow well met"), Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov ("quiet, patient and reasonable"), Lazar Kaganovich ("likes his liquor"), N. A. Bulganin ("handsome and witty"), A. I. Mikoyan ("probably the sharpest and cleverest of all"). All are about the same height (5 ft. 4 in.), and all have the common secondary goal of convincing their own people and the West that the "Stalin terror" is over. But Salisbury emphasizes that the change is only on the surface; their primary goal remains the same: worldwide Communist dictatorship...
...Peking. Next day, singing their Moscow hosts' praises, the delegation took off for Peking. Franklin burbled of the "never-to-be-forgotten" sight of the Kremlin by moonlight, described Molotov as "carefree of spirit ... He left an impression upon me of being perfectly sincere," while Malenkov "cannot resist that friendly grin when someone has made a crack at the Russians or one of their particular policies." Wrote Morgan Phillips: "I am convinced-unless I know nothing of international affairs and human be havior-that the personal friendliness shown to us in the Soviet Union has been altogether genuine . . ..There...
...allies more often say nice things about Malenkov and Molotov than they do about Eisenhower and Dulles. I doubt that we have a single ally we really could depend on if the Reds let fly with an atomic bomb on New York coupled with a warning to London, Paris et al. to "stay neutral"-or else. And unless there is a drastic change, things stand to get worse rather than better. We are being pictured day in and day out, year in and year out, as wanting war while the Soviet Union cries for peace...
...Attlee & Co. were graciously guided along Peking's streets, past glowering portraits of Mao Tse-tung, Malenkov. Stalin and Molotov, through the famed Gate of Heavenly Peace into the old Forbidden City. They visited a model jail, well stocked with some 3,600 political prisoners, where they were told by a jailer that corporal punishment was forbidden, and "It is not permitted even to scold a prisoner...