THE NATIONS: A Blush for Cleopatra

In the eighth deadlocked week of the Big Four deputies' meeting, Andrei Gromyko surpassed his churlish best. Said he:

"There will not be room enough in Korea for the white crosses over the graves of the interventionist troops . . . Churchill's statement [that the U.S. Mediterranean Fleet is a deterrent to aggression] was the statement of an aggressor clanking with atomic weapons . . . Churchill's language is the language of Hitler . . . Churchill and his cannibalistic advocates such as [Ernest] Davies [British deputy] would make even Cleopatra blush."

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