Visitors

Less impressive than Winston Churchill's visit to Paris, but important in the pattern of Europe's power politics, were goings & comings to & from Moscow.

From London arrived Norway's big, jovial, realistic Foreign Minister Trygve Lie (rhymes with me). His mission: 1) to sound out Russian intentions in Norway where the Red Army is fighting in the north; 2) to ask what Norway's new neighbor, Russia, expected in the way of Norwegian good neighborliness.

Minister Lie was preceded by two other callers, Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito and Premier Ivan Subasich. After a round of conferences they hopped back to Belgrade to open Yugoslavia's first Assembly of National Liberation.

The hospitable Muscovites could also look forward to other prospective callers. From London came a report that the U.S., Britain and Russia had opened conversations with Turkey about the Dardanelles. The Turks would probably have to make one of two concessions: 1) demilitarization of the straits to give Russia unchallenged outlet from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean; 2) the creation of a small Dardanelles-Bosporus state to be administered by an international body.

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