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...also made sense to invite the Russians into the great enterprise. Bevin and Bidault quickly saw that. So did Jean-Jacques Granier, 28, a Paris bank clerk currently on strike. Said he: "If the Russians want to come in, that's fine. If they don't, tant pis. That's their business. Ours is to take this chance-mais tout de suite." Although the Communist press grumbled at the Marshall plan, observers believed that even the majority of French Communist voters welcomed it and saw in it the one hope for a stable, peaceful Europe...
Come December. Excess-profits taxes, earlier reduced from 1 00% to 65%, would! end entirely by December. More impor tant, the $17 billion total expenditure was 31% less than last year's, and 91% of it would be paid from revenue. The next budget might be even better, for more than 40% of this one goes to defense supplies, demobilization gratuities, war contract terminations and other non-recurring expenses...
...diplomat, spoke and gestured volubly. In his heavily accented French, he dropped Gallic syllables like Mexican hot tamales. When he rendered Gromyko's cumbersome title, Représentant de I'Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques, it shortened to le représ . . . tant de Union . . . tique. But at tense moments the versatile Mexican was a model of taciturn tact...
This was Washington's biggest international meeting since the 1921 Disarmament Conference. Some enthusiastic commentators described it as the most impor tant meeting since Versailles. But by its own definition the conference was merely exploratory, on a technical level. The conference will not discuss the heart of all the problems of postwar peace - what to do with Germany and Japan. Nor will the conferees ever discuss the countless important subsidiary questions, such as the problem of boundaries...
...Department No. 3 is that segment of U.S. foreign relations which Franklin Roosevelt reserves for himself, working through miscellaneous aides. This segment has expanded ever since the start of World War II, includes matters handled by Assis tant Secretaries Adolf Berle and Dean Acheson,and others handled by such quasi-foreign-relations agencies as OEW, OFRRO and the Nelson Rockefeller Committee...