International: Tough Talk

Vyacheslav Molotov made a quick trip last week to Prague. At his behest, the Foreign Ministers of Russia's seven East European satellites were on hand to confer with him. There was good reason to believe that the Soviet Deputy Premier had a communiqué all ready in his pocket for the lesser comrades to initial.

It was a truculent document, devoted mostly to vilifying the Western powers for their plan to rearm Western Germany (". . . the aggressive bloc of the so-called Atlantic pact [is trying] to make [Germany] definitely a tool of their aggressive, war-strategic plans in Europe . . .")....

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