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...Moscow, Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt opened the door of the U. S. Embassy a little-enough to let citizens see, within its secrecy-shrouded interior, that he had conferred long with Premier-Foreign Commissar Molotov just as peace moves got under way in earnest, that he had held an unpublicized reception for the Finnish negotiators when they arrived-all giving rise to a report that the negotiations had been held on the conveniently neutral ground of the U. S. Embassy...
...Easily beat back an attempt by Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge to strike out a $17,500 salary appropriation for Laurence Steinhardt, U. S. Ambassador to Russia, as a reflection of national resentment against Russia...
...attack was impending; as the British-Italian trade agreement broke down; as Swedish public opinion split on the question of aid to the Finns and King Haakon of Norway hurried to Stockholm; as Premier Molotov in Moscow gave a three and one-half hour lunch to U. S. Ambassador Steinhardt; as diplomatic life all over Europe speeded up in the wake of the Welles mission, it was plain that, although Sumner Welles made no statement, raised no hopes, he looked to many a European like the agent of a going concern who had entered the realm of disorder. Here & there...
...Decided flatly (but privately) not to recall from Russia U. S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, but left the matter on a 24-hour basis. Franklin Roosevelt firmly believes that in his foreign policy he has made but one bad blunder: withdrawal one year ago of U. S. Ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson. Mr. Roosevelt regards Ambassadors as reporters, doesn't like the second-hand reports now coming out of Berlin to the U. S. via London and Paris. The Kremlin, he well knows, would not care a fingersnap if Mr. Steinhardt were recalled, and then...
...fooling, most foreign diplomats in Moscow thought that Joseph Stalin's last wish was an ever so tiny war. They believed until the last minute that Comrade Stalin was merely trying a "war of nerves" on the Finns. So sure was U.S. Ambassador to Russia Laurence A. Steinhardt that there would not be war that he was caught off-base in Sweden, rushed back by special plane to Moscow where he had plenty to do expressing the U. S. Government's ideas...