UNITED NATIONS: Sweet & Sour

So far, Russia still stuck to her new line of calculated conciliation.

For the second time in five weeks, Generalissimo Stalin broke the Olympian silence of the Kremlin and spoke soothingly to the world in reply to 31 questions from U.P. President Hugh Baillie. His main points: 1) tension between Russia and the U.S. is not increasing; 2) Russia has not got the atom bomb; 3) Russia finds the presence of British troops in Greece "unnecessary," is "indifferent" toward the presence of U.S. warships in the Mediterranean; 4) Germany ought to become a political and economic unit.

Next day, Foreign Minister...

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