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Two Russian reporters, sent to cover the San Francisco conference, got sidetracked by the bourgeois distractions. Last week, in cables to their Moscow papers, they reported some of their findings. U.S. newsmen especially amused, astonished and alarmed them.
One month after the first live German magnetic mine was captured on Nov. 24, 1939, Britain had produced a completely successful counter-weapon. That weapon, the Admiralty announced last week, was a pair of long electrified cables towed behind two minesweeping tugs. The cables set up a magnetic field strong...
Revealing stories about their way together were told last week. Churchill and Roosevelt spoke the same language-in more ways than one-and they were closer to each other than to Stalin. At times the two talked by transocean telephone almost every day. They loved to argue-Churchill heated and...
*Ambassador Gromyko, who was to have headed the Russian delegation, looked tired and harassed the morning after Roosevelt's death, as though he had been working hard on cables to Moscow. The British Embassy sent Churchill a hurried, six-page cable on Truman.
"If there ever was a time for optimism, this is it," says Zinder. "Things have obviously reached the stage where plans cannot be made in terms of months or even weeks," Wertenbaker cables.