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Show , ONCE OVER : - Harold, Joe Pow-vow in Moscow By H. I. PHILLIPS TJAROLD. you remember me, of course. Joe. The face is familiar, but I don't recall the persistence. Harold. You and 1 had a previous interview. Joe. How did we come out? Harold. Nothing special came of it, but I feel it may have been a slight contribution to world peace. Joe. We should have quit when we were ahead! e e Harold. I feel the main dif-fculty dif-fculty has been your coldness. Must you be the only ruler in the world with whom a conference confer-ence produces only ice cubes? Joe. A government is at Its best when its defrosting equipment equip-ment is out of order. Harold. Can't we re-examine and re-appraise the whole world problem? Joe. No matter how I examine ex-amine the world, It still comes out Russian. But. proceed! Harold. Why, for example, must Russia maintain an iron curtain with a big "Keep Out" sign on it? Joe. What you don't see won't hurt ME! e e Harold. In our last conference : you predicted Amerca would have an economic collapse by nineteen fifty. You were nnety-nine per cent wrong. Joe. That still left me one per cent right. From a Soviet angle , that is not bad. Harold. It also seems to me that you should wake up to the fact your agents supplying you with information in-formation on conditions in the U.S.A. are amazingly inaccurate. Joe. You do not understand the Russian approach; first we decide how we wish to find conditions; then we proceed to find them that way Harold. You seem as unyielding and difficult as ever. Joe. I've noticed that, too. Harold. Can't the other fellow be right once in a hundred times? Joe. You want me to go to extremes! ex-tremes! Harold. I thought possibly you were ready for a new blueprint or plan for world understanding. Joe. My position is clear. I am for any blueprint, provided it is red. Harold. We are not getting anywhere any-where in a program for peace. Joe. Nonsense. I approve every point in every program for peace and brotherly love everywhere. Harold. But deeds count more than words. Joe. Don't be absurd. I make my words so loud that deeds don't ever finish in the money. Was this trip necessary? If you wanted to know how Russia stands today you could have followed the Soviet speeches before U.N. Harold. That's the trouble. I DID follow them. Do you really mean you were satisfied with them? Joe. I liked everything except the television broadcasts. THEY SHOWED MY SPEAKERS RIGHT-SIDE RIGHT-SIDE UP1 I I |