The biggest news of the month was being made in Moscow last week, but what little news came out did not come from there. It was not for lack of trying. The press was not bound by any voluntary censorship, and it was ready & anxious to print any news it could get. In trying to cover the four-power talks on Germany, the foreign press corps in Moscow, now down to a corporal's guard, ran into a new kind of four-power agreement: an unbroken compact of silence. It led to some of the most frustrated reporting—and wildest guessing—since the war's end.
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