The first specific postwar aim that Russia, Britain and the U.S. agreed on (at Moscow in 1943) was that Austria should be "free and independent [with] political and economic security. . . ." Applause twittered around the world; it just went to show, didn't it, what a little good will could accomplish.
Last week Austria was still a shattered monument to the breakdown of Big Three cooperation. In Paris, Jimmy Byrnes, as a key point in the new U.S. positive policy, tried to begin redemption of the pledge. Curtly, Molotov told Byraes that Austria...
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