The Big Four picked a pink palace for the momentous Foreign Ministers Conference which convenes in Paris next week. Known as the Palais Rose, it belongs to the Duchess de Talleyrand-Périgord, formerly Countess de Castellane, formerly Anna Gould. Furniture movers, electricians and telephone men were hard at work to get everything ready. No less hard at work were the Foreign Ministers' advance guardU.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup, Britain's Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, France's Alexandre Parodiin an attempt to "harmonize" their nations' views on what ought to be the West's strategy.
The Russians meanwhile...