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Moscow's purpose was as transparent as vodka: to lure the West into relaxing. Warned Yugoslavia's Tito, out of his intimate knowledge of his old master: Moscow is trying to "make one feel that the U.S.S.R. has changed its line . . . Soviet foreign policy occasionally changes tactics, but there is never a basic change in its substance...
...Lazar Kaganovich, longtime Politburo member and Stalin's brother-in-law; in Moscow, July 3. British and Swiss newspapers said the nuptial feast in the Kremlin lasted a fortnight, with refreshments served on Czarist gold plate and sped with pink Crimean champagne, sweet Armenian peach brandy and vodka. Cost...
There were no handshakes, no salutes. After an awkward pause, Kinney opened the meeting by saying that they might as well get down to business. At lunch time, the Reds proffered vodka, beer and candy, but none of the U.N. men accepted. They ate their own box lunches. The Eighth Army cameraman took motion pictures; so did the Reds...
Distressed to learn that in the last ten months 576,996 gallons of vodka had been turned out in the U.S., Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin. president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union,† sounded the alarm: "Americans certainly should know enough to let it alone, after learning its effect on our diplomats at Yalta and Potsdam...
...personal relations were concerned, the Russians had gotten along fine in Salzburg - particularly Senior Lieut. Vasily Pivovarov, who had acquired quite a reputation among U.S. Army officers because he always breakfasted on six eggs, four sausages, one raw cucumber, eight slices of bread and a glass of vodka...