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Inside a pink granite Masonic temple in Alexandria, Va. dedicated to the memory of George Washington, Harry Truman went to work. There will be no new peace overtures to Russia, he made clear, no "parley at the summit" as proposed by Winston Churchill. Strength, not more talk, is what is needed to bring the Kremlin to an honest settlement...
While the free world talked fitfully of a last-hope parley with the Russians, the press wires from Moscow were singularly silent on the subject. The New York Times wondered what had happened to its Moscow correspondent, Harrison Salisbury. Then, when his copy finally came in, the Times discovered that Soviet censorship had held up everything. "Three [dispatches]," explained the Times, "were subjected to extraordinary censorship delays, varying from one to four days, presumably because they touch on matters that apparently have been undergoing high-policy discussion within the Soviet Government...
...everyone's eyes from domestic affairs to the mushroom-shaped cloud overhanging mankind. "I cannot help coming back," he said in Edinburgh, "to this idea of another talk with Soviet Russia on the highest level. It is not easy to see how things could be worsened by a parley at the summit...
...said, was a "fairy tale"; German responsibility for the first World War had been no greater than France's. "Hitler," he shouted, "was a product of the Versailles treaty and of France's own despondency." To emphasize the Saar issue, the Bonn government called off a trade parley with the Quai d'Orsay...
Next day at a truce parley, Krugersdorp authorities explained that a new regulation for "voluntary registration of native women" did not mean that they had to carry passes. But in the parley, the aroused strikers did not sit down, in the traditional gesture of humility, when the whites addressed them. It caused one police official to complain: "I have never yet been to a meeting where the natives stand when you speak to them. It's most disrespectful...