ABSTRACT
In Russia, the US farm delegation thought the Soviet farmers contented, because they were living better than ever before, though they still had only necessities. The delegation’s criticisms of Soviet agriculture were published in all the leading Soviet papers, while in Washington the Soviet Minister of Agriculture won an ovation from a capacity crowd at the National Press Club. Middleton thought there was no need for Russia to negotiate about Germany, since common economic problems would draw the two Germanies together. The Western argument that the division is a threat to peace was sound, but the mass of the Europeans “won’t buy it.” On February 5 the Soviet Government protested an invasion by US Air Force balloons equipped with cameras and radios.
