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After the last round of talks in Moscow (TIME, Aug. 13), when Russian Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov brusquely refused to consider a treaty which would return to Japan the small southern Kuril islands of Kunashiri and Etorofu, the Japanese public burst into irate criticism of Hatoyama and his government. Politically as well as physically, Ichiro Hatoyama was in poor shape to fight such attacks. With illness, his speech had grown slurred, his inordinate need for sleep had kept him away from important Cabinet meetings and caused the press to label him "the afternoon-nap Prime Minister." Worst of all, leaders...
...pushed an alternative plan giving control of the canal to Egypt, wound up saying "we will be only too happy" if the majority plan leads to a settlement. The one diehard of the conference turned out to be Russia's freshman Minister of Foreign Affairs Dimitry Shepilov, whose smiles, dinner parties and fine talk of "international cooperation" had raised Western hopes of a broad settlement in the conference's first days...
Voice of the Past. Shepilov to the end attacked Dulles' proposals as "an effort to reimpose colonialism on Egypt," and held out against an innocuous Indonesian proposal for a closing communique, thus managing to alienate even his associates in opposition. Conceivably some of Shepilov's tactics were the result of diplomatic inexperience, and they hurt him with fellow diplomats who found him, at least as a table companion, infinitely preferable to his predecessor, "Stony Bottom" Molotov. Shepilov displayed a greater Soviet interest in exploiting the naked political possibilities of trouble than in solving the problem that had brought...
...Five Trappists. Over the monotonous objections of Shepilov. the majority appointed a five-nation committee (Australia, Sweden, Ethiopia. Iran, the U.S.) to take its proposals to Nasser. Thus the conference ended on a note of suspense. Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies was named chairman. Deputy Undersecretary of State Loy Henderson the U.S. representative. Menzies, who earlier in the week had been riding to conference sessions with a TV set in his limousine so as not to miss a minute of the Australia v. England cricket matches, pronounced his committee's task so delicate that "we should...
...banquet during the Suez conference in London (see FOREIGN NEWS), square-cut Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov turned up in a brand-new dinner jacket, set fellow diplomats and male fashion authorities to buzzing. A spokesman for Britain's dictatorial but often waggish Tailor and Cutter magazine ripped into Shepilov's ensemble with a piece-by-piece analysis. Of the pre-tied, hook-on bow tie: "If you don't have a valet to tie your tie, which regrettably many people don't, then you should tie it up yourself.'' Of the hang...