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...Chicago Sun has good sources in London. Last week he cabled: "Premier Stalin has now formally agreed to Soviet participation in a tri-power conference with the U.S.A. and Great Britain. Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov is understood to have communicated this decision to Admiral William H. Standley and to Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, the U.S. and British Ambassadors in Moscow, this week, evidently in reply to a proposal from Quebec...
...Returning from Stalingrad, where he saw immense junk piles of wrecked Nazi planes and tanks, the hard-bitten U.S. Ambassador, Admiral William H. Standley, said: "I can now believe almost any [Red] claims...
...Embassy in Moscow Ambassador William Standley gave a rousing Fourth of July party. The guests, Americans and Russians, enjoyed: hot dogs with buns and mustard; punch with vodka; a Russian orchestra presenting a concert of American music, including Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and a Shostakovich arrangement of When Johnny Comes Marching Home...
...make a landing in 1942, we could not promise to do so." Last week President Roosevelt, in an anniversary message to Stalin, did not mention a second front; at a press conference he said only that no one wants a second front more than he does. In Moscow Ambassador Standley suggested that the U.S. and Britain would appreciate some assurance " that the wartime cooperation now working to defeat Hitler will continue until Japan is defeated...
Symptoms. The gropings toward labor unity were symptomatic of other attempts to secure Anglo-American-Russian postwar collaboration. Said cautious U.S. Ambassador William Standley in Moscow last week: "Postwar cooperation is absolutely essential if we are to win the peace...