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...that it was hard to get work done. In cablese he reported, "eye got coffee running out one ear, tea outa other . . . learned love caviar teheran where tis but six bits for all you can eat. budget going to take hell of beating when eye get home, learned like vodka, only approximation dry martini teheran...
...bring the Middle East into the Western camp, no safe end is in sight to Mohammed Mossadeq's fantastic national adventure. Meanwhile, the only people to profit from the situation will be the Iranian Communists and their Soviet Russian friends. In Teheran last week, at a caviar and vodka garden party at the Russian embassy, guests noticed that Ambassador Ivan Vasilievich Sadchikov was in an unusually good mood, generally seemed the most contented man in sight...
Last November Moscow made a clear-as-vodka attempt to disrupt the Western decision to rearm Western Germany: the Kremlin held out the enticing prospect of another Council of Foreign Ministers meeting. The U.S., Britain and France replied that such a talk must include not only the question of Germany but of other areas of disagreement as well. On New Year's Eve, the Russians answered. They reaffirmed their offer to talk about Germany, but gave neither a flat da nor a flat niet on whether they were willing to talk about the other sore spots...
...feast began with sturgeon, smoked salmon and caviar on bliny (Russian pancakes). Vodka flowed, but no toasts were exchanged. After soup came partridge stuffed with wild rice. After the salad trailed bowls of fresh pineapple and sherbet. Then followed filet mignon, vegetables, a magnificent baked Alaska, and fruit again. Cracked the U.S.'s Ernest Gross: "I thought the meal was over three times before it was." Asked if it had been a Russian dinner, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb sardonically quipped: "Not Russian-Edwardian. It was one more proof that the Soviet Union is 40 years behind...
...Aragvi, a good meal costs 100 to 175 rubles ($25 to $43) a head, depending on the amount of vodka and reddish Caucasian champagne consumed. Monthly pay of an average Russian is about 600 rubles...