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Posted Monday, May 16, 1949

In a fourth-floor office of the State Department this week, busy aides thumbed diligently through top-secret policy papers on German-Austrian affairs. George Kennan, expert on U.S.-Soviet policies, slipped off to a secret sanctum where he could think things through beyond the reach of visitors and telephones. In other offices, other State Department experts put their heads together and seriously pretended that they were Russians. If they were, what would they plan to do next?
This Thursday, by the U.S.S.R.'s promise, the Berlin blockade will be lifted. Eleven days later, the Council of Foreign Ministers will meet in Paris to discuss the future of Germany (see INTERNATIONAL). U.S. officialdom this week was like a man who had been pushing against a door which someone had been holding shut from the other side. Now, suddenly, the door was thrown open. There, nodding and smiling enigmatically, was the U.S.S.R.
Whatever Russia's future intentions, the......

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