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Moscow kept its promise to the visiting press-and added a few unexpected trimmings. U.S. and British newsmen got preferred rooms in the Hotel Moskva, which normally houses the "classless society's" technical, artistic and political elite. The Soviet elite doubled up with friends around town so that Moscow could put on the dog for correspondents at the Conference of Foreign Ministers...
...Moskva there was a dial telephone and hot water in every room (the hot water began on the same day as the conference), English-speaking employees on every floor. A special book of meal tickets entitled each visitor to excellent, inexpensive food (waiters in the Moskva's dining room were surprised to see how British newsmen, rationed at home, stuffed themselves). Everything was so good for the visiting newsmen that Moscow's seven U.S. regulars put in a bid for special restaurant privileges too-and got them in six hours, a bureaucratic record...
London's Little Peace Conference wound up in a festive blaze of cocktail and dinner parties. Preparations for the imminent Big Peace Conference began with a less festive scrubbing and whitewashing in Moscow's Moskva and Metropole Hotels. But the prospects for the meeting on which all of Europe's peace depends were not bright. The report to the Foreign Ministers, which the deputies turned in after a spell of predeadline frenzy, was largely a list of deadlocks...
Last week the Moscow evening daily, Vechernaya Moskva, told fascinated Muscovites (who get little crime news) the story of Serafima. The paper did not say what happened after her arrest, but keen readers noted that the stories always mentioned her in the past tense...
Snow melted as it fell and clouds lowered on Moscow's greatest anniversary celebration of the Red Revolution. Across the Moskva River an electric sign half a block long gleamed: SLAVA VELIKOMU STALINU ("Glory to the great Stalin"). Pravda said: "Thousands of [Stalin's] portraits swam over the columns of the demonstrators and his name, pronounced by millions of lips, went soaring above the harmony of the songs, above the powerful, continuous thunderclap of hurrahs...