CONFERENCES,THE NATIONS: The Secretary & the Blonde

CONFERENCES

Between Yalta, where he sat at the right hand of Franklin Roosevelt, and Mexico City, where he will sit at the head of the U.S. delegation, Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. sat for one evening in the Imperial box at Moscow's famed Bolshoi Theater. He got a great ovation as he entered, accompanied by Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, Vice Commissar Andrei Vishinsky, and Boss Ed Flynn. The two Eds were then treated to a performance of Swan Lake, the same ballet which entranced Wendell Willkie two years and five months...

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