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...Moscow, Ambassador Alan Kirk made the five-minute drive from Spasso House to the Foreign Ministry just outside the Kremlin's walls, and was ushered in for a 20-minute talk with Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Soon after, Alan Kirk's report reached Washington: the Russian peace feeler looked like the real thing...
...capitalist ambassadors like Admiral Kirk, day-to-day travel in the U.S.S.R. is restricted to a 30-mile zone around Moscow. To go beyond, he must have a special pass and travel by a route designated by the government. If he stays at Spasso House, the U.S. embassy, he sees no Russians at all: "They're not allowed to come to the embassy, so there's no contact...
That night most of Moscow's foreign diplomatic colony gathered at Spasso House, the home of U.S. Ambassador Alan Kirk. They were watching a movie, when big news arrived. Within hours of Mao Tse-tung's bid, Joseph Stalin's government had granted recognition to the Chinese Communist government. In a brusque note to Canton, Moscow had brushed off the Nationalist as "a provincial government" and withdrawn its recognition...
...governments of the Western diplomats gathered at Moscow's Spasso House had not arrived at any clear, coordinated policy on whether to recognize Red China. The U.S. was still waiting "for the dust to settle...
...tough U.S. military front that seems best understood in Moscow. The man he picked is poker-faced, tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk, 60, USN (ret.), who ran the Navy's showin the invasion of Sicily, is now ambassador to Belgium. In June, Kirk will take over Spasso House, the U.S. embassy just a mile from the Kremlin, known to some of the inmates as Spasm House...