Evening star., 1947-04-25
1.-THE EVENING STAR. Washington. D. G.
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Of the Council Of Foreign Ministers,
in New York In September, perhaps,
and In London In November GER
tainly, and specializing as to whether
the ministers would have any more
success on the knotty problems
which stymied them here.
Accompanying Gen. Marshall on
the plane, which took Oh at 9:03
am. t1.03 am. EST, were John
Foster Dulles, his Republican Ad-]
wiser; Col. Marshall Carter, his Sec
retary; Charles e. Bohlen, his in-I
terpreter, and H. Freeman Nat
thews.
Lavish Banquet ~ Kremlin.
The final breakup of the confer
ence came with friendly spirits pre-
vailing despite the sometimes harsh
and blunt disagreements over the
basic issues at stake, and this good
will was especially noticeable at last
nights lavish banquet In the Krem-
| lin.
More than a score of toasts were
drunk. Prime Minister Stain raised
his glass to President Truman in
what probably was the diplomatic
highiight of the affair. All of the
distinguished guests downed the
contents of their glasses-most OF
which held wine-when the Russian
leader proposed this toast.
Mr.. Bidault drank to more sue
cess at the next Foreign Ministers
meeting and Gen. Marshalls toast
was in these words:
I'm our impatience, 1t will per-
haps be understood that we are
most anxious for an early peace and
prosperity In Europe"
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov
had busy evening, proposing toasts
to the heads of all the Big Four
powers, including President Nikolai
M. Shvernik of the U. s. S. r., who
was present; to his ministerial col
leagues. and to their deputies, both
those working on the Austrian
treaty and those working on the
German pact.
Twitted BY Dulles.
So many toasts did Mr.. Molotov
propose, and in such detail, that
Mr.. Dulles twitted him later for
failing to drink to the health of
the deputies who worked on the
Trieste financial report-one Of the
few items on which the council
found itself in agreement.
The drinks included both white
and red wines, champagne, liqueurs.
and vodka The food included
caviar, three kinds of cold fish
salad and hot zakuski (hors
d'oeuvres). consomme, two kinds Of
hot fish, turkey, chicken, Ice cream
and coffee.
After the meal, the guests saw 4
Russian color motion picture, THE
Stone Flower"
Mr.. Stain greeted all the guests
the 10 top men from each visiting
delegation-affably on their arrival
and again on their departure, at
about l am. He was in uniform,
with generalissimo's stars on his
shoulders.
Americans attending were: Gen.
Marshall, Mr. Dulles, Mr.. Matthews,
Mr.. Bohlen, Ambassador Walter
Bedell Smith, Gen. Mark w. Clark,
Edward Mason, Benjamin Cohen,
Elbridge Durbrow and Robert Muir
ply.
Junior members of the British
French and American stats blew
off steam at big party in the
Moscow hotel, to the strains of hot
music by q Russian orchestra.
Fear Propaganda Conflict.
All the same, the fact that 50
little progress had been made de-
pressed most diplomats today and
some western power sources pri-
vately expressed fear that q great
Efour-power propaganda coHfiict for
political position in Germany would
soon break out.
What seriously troubled the
American delegation particularly
was the fact that the issues on
which the Big -Four so consistently
split three to one-RusSia being the
one-directly affect the lives of mil
lions In Central Europe and that
events will not stand still in the
four to six months before the next
round of, negotiations.
The situation was seen as ripe for
making matters worse instead of
better, and efforts by both the East
and the West to improve their own
positions are confidently expected.