Evening star., 1952-10-04
Truman Likely
To Keep Envoy
0utof ofMoscow
New Administration
To Get Hot Issue;
Acheson indignant
By Gornett D. Horner

By Gornett D. Homer
The United States will be with
out an Ambassador in Moscow
until after a new President is in
augurated next January. informed
sources predicted today.
President Truman is expected
to keep George Kennan. whose
immediate recall" was demanded
by the Soviet government yester-
day. on the rolls as nominal Am
bassador to Russia although he
will not be able to return to his
post.
Thus key decisions on whether
to try to send another Ambassador
to Moscow. maintain an Embassy
there without an Ambassador or
break off diplomatic relations en-
tirely may be left to the new
administration coming in next
year-unlesS further action by
Russia forces the issue.
Retaliation Now Unlikely.
The possibility of some retalia-
ton against Russia soon, favored
by several members of Congress,
was not ruled out. But Secretary
of State AcheSon indicated no
such action was planned.
Mr.. Acheson was preparing,
however, a sharp rejection OF
MoScow's charge that Mr.. Kennan
slandered the Soviets by compar-
ing American life in Moscow now
to that under Nazi internment.
Mr.. Kennan will confer Sunday
in Geneva with Charles E. Bohlen,
State Department counsellor, who
is flying there from Vienna.
visitingsH Daughter.
Mr.. Kennan, in Switzerland to
visit his daughter Elizabeth, 16,
a student at the International
School, will join his wife and two
other children, Christopher, 2, and
Wendy. 4 months, who are flying
from Moscow to Berlin early next
week. Another daughter. Grace,
20, is a student at Radcliffe Col
lege. Cambridge. Mass.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Kennan at the
consulate in Geneva. steadfastly
refused to comment.
Russia seized on MIR. Kennan's
remarks to reporters in Berlin
last month, in which he noted
little difference between his free
dom of movement when interned
by the Nazis in 1912 and that
permitted him in Moscow. as
grounds for declaring him per
soma non grata"-personally un-
acceptable.
A Soviet note delivered to the
American Embassy in Moscow
yesterday charged the AmbasSa-
doris statements were SANDER
Gus attacks hostile to the Soviet
Union in a rude violation of gen.
orally recognized norms of inter-
national law"
Acheson Blames Soviet.
In statement read to a special
news conference after consulting
with President Truman by tele-
phone to. his whistle-Stop cam
paign train on the Pacific Coast,
Mr.. Acheson asserted:
THE Russian peoples themselves
must be shamefully aware that
foreigners within the Soviet I'm
ion are customarily treated by the
Soviet government in ways which
are the exact contrary of civilized
international usage.
"The violator of accepted usage
Is the Soviet government, which
has created the situation accu-
rately described in Ambassador
Remnants Berlin statement.
"The Soviet government will be
informed of this conclusion"
The official reply to Moscow will
go out soon, possibly this week
end. officials said.
Relations at Ebb.
Seriousness Of the situation
could not be minimized. The Rus
sian action brought United States
Soviet relations to the lowest point
since this Government recognized
the Soviet Union in 1888.
The recall demand itself may
be side-stepped in the formal reply
to Moscow. Mr.. Acheson told re-
porters that Mr.. Kennan is not
being recalled, but will come to
Washington later "for consulta-
ton"
In a somewhat similar situation,
Ambassador Selden Chapin's re-
call was demanded by Hungary in
February, 1949. Instead, he was
called home for consultation and
kept on the rolls as Ambassador
to Hungary until he was named
Ambassador to the Netherlands
eight months later.
Should the post of Ambassador
in Moscow be left vacant indefi-
nitely. some authorities said they
believed it likely Moscow might
recall Georgi N. Zarubin, who last
week presented his credentials ia
President Truman as Soviet Am
haSSaflOr here. This would refl,lce
Soviet-American relations to q
routine basis. handled by subor.
dinate officials.