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...Technicalities. Through the third and fourth days. Ilyichev disbursed concessions like vodka toasts. By week's end, only a few technicalities stood between Austria's 7,000,000 and their freedom: when foreign troops should withdraw, what was to be the nature of the four-power Austrian neutrality guarantee demanded by Russia, and most embarrassing of all, what should be done about foreign oil rights in Austria. Socony-Vacuum, Royal Dutch Shell and a few other Western companies whose oil lands were confiscated by the Nazis, want them back...
...allotted number of hands to applaud you for having published those pertinent excerpts of Major General John R. Deane's letter to General George Marshall, written before the now hysteric Yalta fiasco. Had the late F.D.R. seen fit to heed it (instead of hide it!) during those mollycoddling, vodka-swigging days, God only knows how much more beautiful the world might have been today. "We Must Be Tougher" should be rammed down the throats of every American who still vacillates between the two present global ideologies...
...Vodka & Caviar. Neither Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Senator George nor Senator Knowland had any basic quarrel with the President's views. All agreed that the possibility of a four-power conference should be carefully-most carefully-explored. In a conversation with a friend, Dulles once put his finger on the Administration's wariness of top-level meetings with vague agenda...
...anywhere drinking toasts in vodka, eating caviar, and sitting around getting your picture taken," he said. "You just raise false hopes in the minds of people who are looking for an end of tension." By week's end the new interest in a Big Four conference had spread around the world. One of President Eisenhower's preconference conditions was met when the French Parliament completed ratification of the Paris agreements (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Moscow Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin turned on his propaganda machinery and granted an interview to a Tass reporter. Said Bulganin: "The Soviet government takes...
First Line of Defense. In St. Paul, legislators first defeated, later passed (77 to 44) a bill legalizing the sale of vodka, despite Representative F. Gordon Wright's warning that "the bill is nothing but Communist propaganda . . . Pravda [will] tell all the people behind the Iron Curtain that we have taken a liking to their national drink...