Battle of the Peacemakers
Fraser calls Paris "the most depressing assembly of statesmen since Munich"—It's a revealing symptom of East-West cleavage
September 15 1946
BLAIR FRASER
Battle of the Peacemakers
Maclean’s Ottawa Editor
PARIS (By Cable)—Even the imperturbable Viachislav Molotov seemed nervous that Thursday afternoon. He kept patting his back hair and smoothing wisps over his bald spot as he walked down to the rostrum, and he poured several glasses of water as he talked. But there was no hesitancy in the harsh Russian phrases and in their purport, even as intoned by the commissar s pallid little interpreter, Pavlov; there was something almost majestic.