FOREIGN RELATIONS: Diplomats at Work, Jul. 23, 1956

Into Foggy Bottom one day last week tramped stormy-faced Soviet Ambassador Georgy N. Zarubin for an interview with Secretary of State Dulles. It was obvious, as Zarubin cooled his heels in the State Department's fifth-floor reception room, that something was on his mind beside the new Kremlin policy of smiles. Ushered into Dulles' office, he protested angrily that four times in early July and four times last April U.S. planes based in West Germany had "deliberately" penetrated the air space over Baltic Russia—"some for more than 2½ hours" and by as much as 214 miles. He got a polite but short...

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