It was 4 a.m. when Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov took off from Paris on his way back to Moscow. In the dawn, he flew across a continent which, for the first time since the dreadful but simple days of war, could see clearly where it stood.
Said Marcel Trarieux, a 36-year-old French veteran who runs a garage near Vincennes:
"The Russians have done a terrible thing. I have always had an open mind about Communism. But Molotov has closed the door to a better living standard for his own people. And any system which...
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