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Caricatures of the Past. Most formal sessions were held in the Athénée (birthplace of the Red Cross). Corridor conferences were held in a Geneva restaurant whose walls were hung with malicious caricatures of statesmen of the Europe which had just died. Cigaret smoke spiraled spectrally across figures of Laval, Briand, Chamberlain, Mussolini, as the intellectuals discussed the mistakes of the past and tried to lay a groundwork for a new pan-European peace of the mind...
Never before in history, except possibly at the court of Genghis Khan at Karakorum, has there been such a coming & going of representatives of races from all the ends of the earth. Chinese statesmen, a British archbishop, American generals, Azerbaijanian revolutionists, Indian conspirators, Mongolian ministers, Poles, Persians, Rumanians, Finns, Czechs, Germans, Frenchmen, Turks, Koreans, Australians, Canadians, Norwegians and many more have been received on this field in public panoply while the band struck up the Soviet anthem...
...United States has now begun a struggle for Germany against the Soviet Union. The decision to do so-one of the gravest ever made by American statesmen-was taken for two reasons. It was made necessary by the competition between the Soviet and Western systems which is now going on all over the world. It was precipitated by Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov's statement to the Foreign Ministers' meeting in Paris on July 14, which first disclosed Soviet purposes beyond any possibility of doubt...
...Without mincing words, the purpose of the new American policy is to deny control of Germany, and therefore of Europe, to the Soviet Union. Statesmen on public rostrums do not of course speak so plainly. Yet that was the real motive of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes's reply to Molotov in Paris-which was to demand immediate economic unification of Germany, and to announce that the United States would make a start by uniting its zone of occupation with any or all of their zones. By this statement, Byrnes in effect invited the British to join with...
...great many American businessmen believe and fear that Britain has become entirely Red. Americans are not inclined to believe very much of what is said by statesmen, politicians and diplomats, but they are always ready to believe what a businessman says. If he writes from England, what he says is accepted as straight from the horse's mouth and is believed implicitly...