FOREIGN RELATIONS: Half a League

This week in Moscow the foreign ministers of Russia, Britain and the U.S. will meet again, will try to pick up the threads broken by disagreements last September.

Before the United Nations Organization could take over, there were many touchy issues on which Big Three consultation was needed. Washington put the atomic bomb at the top of the agenda (see INTERNATIONAL). On Thanksgiving Day, after a big dinner, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes had pondered the issues, had decided to take the initiative in arranging the meeting.

Thus, for better or worse, the Big Three machinery was back in motion. There...

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