After three years of military diplomacy as Ike Eisenhower's brilliant wartime chief of staff, Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith switched smoothly to the civilian brand in 1946 as U.S. ambassador to Moscow. There, for almost three years, he has nursed his ulcers and plugged determinedly away at the nation's toughest, loneliest diplomatic post. But in the stiffening deadlock of U.S.-Soviet relations there has been little that any diplomat could do other than make futile trips to the Kremlin.
When he flew home last fall to give Harry Truman a dramatic up-to-the-minute briefing on his campaign train, it was no secret...
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