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...soled sport shoes and a rumpled brown suit, got out of the plane which had flown him from Washington to New York. He sped by car to 2 Park Avenue, headquarters for the U.S. delegation to U.N. There at his desk he wrote a letter. He was Dr. Philip Jessup, onetime college professor and the State Department's top negotiator. He gave the letter to an aide, Albert Bender, to deliver to Yakov Malik, of the Russian U.N. delegation...
...delegates' lounge at U.N. headquarters at Lake Success, where representatives of the world's sovereign nations gather over Martinis or orange juice, was a handy place for a casual meeting. There, one day last February, the U.S.'s lanky negotiator, Philip Jessup, fell into conversation with Russia's barrel-chested Yakov Malik. From that conversation, the U.S. learned last week, came the series of talks which brought the first break in the cold war in months: the Russians were prepared to abandon the blockade of Berlin. The end of the Berlin airlift, a historic employment...
...omission in Stalin's reply to U.S. Newspaperman Kingsbury Smith. Smith had asked what Stalin's terms were for calling off the blockade. Stalin's answer made no men tion of the issue of Berlin's currency, his major earlier demand. In the U.N. lounge, Jessup met Malik and asked: Was the omission accidental? Malik said he would find...
Park Avenue Talk. It was a month before the answer came: it was "not accidental." The Russians were willing to lift the blockade first, settle the currency problem at a meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. Thus began a series of guardedly friendly talks between Malik and Jessup in the Russian U.N. headquarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue. At week's end, they had informally discussed lifting the blockade, perhaps by May 15, had agreed to the U.S.S.R.'s single string to the offer: a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, probably in Paris...
...next meeting between Phillip C. Jessup, U. S. Ambassador-at-large, and Jakob A. Malik, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, will be called when one or the other party picks up a phone and says "lot's meet," but no one knows which party is going to do that, the spokesman said...