Mission to Moscow Page #6

Why, that is an open affront

of international rights.

I never say anything outside

the kremlin about russia

that i wouldn't say to

stalin's face. Do you?

Well, that's putting it

rather stiffly, sir.

Then stop gossiping and

stop listening to it.

We're here, in a sense, as

guests of the soviet government,

and i'm going to believe

that they trust

the united states as a friend

until they prove otherwise.

Yes, sir.

But if there

were microphones...

well,

let them listen.

We'd be friends

that much faster.

And if they haven't

got microphones,

i'm not going to

insult them

by ripping out the walls to find out.

Anyway, it's much

too expensive.

Besides, sir, we examined

these rooms two years ago.

Let's give them

the benefit

of the doubt,

eh, spendler?

Yes, sir.

Come on, kids,

beat it.

Sked-skedaddle, please!

Come on.

They certainly have a healthy

curiosity, haven't they?

Come on. Come on. Come on.

What an attractive

display, madam molotov.

Why, this might be in a fifth

avenue window in new york.

Oh, thank you.

When i first became commissar

of the cosmetic industry,

i went to paris

to study their methods.

But i didn't realize

that luxury trades

were encouraged

in the soviet union.

We discovered that feminine

beauty was not a luxury.

Won't you sit down?

Well, i imagine women are

much the same the world over.

They all want

to please their men.

Before i show you

around the factory,

we'll have some tea.

Oh, how nice.

I'm very curious to know

how the wife of the premier

has the time to run

a large industry.

Oh, the wives of many of our

commissars have some work of their own.

We prefer that to

merely social duties.

So do i.

In my early 20s,

i had to assume

the responsibility

of running my

father's business.

An american woman

running a business.

We had the impression that american

women were ornamental and not useful,

and you thought that our women

were useful, but not ornamental.

Ha! I guess

we were both wrong.

I think we have much

in common, mrs. Davies.

That's a very nice

compliment.

I'll see you

at the ball tonight,

but sometime i should like to

arrange a luncheon at our dacha.

It might interest you to meet some

of the women little known to the world

who have contributed so much to engineering,

medicine, and industrial progress.

I should feel honored.

I know you'll like them,

and i feel sure

they'll like you.

Thank you.

Here. Maria, i'd like you

to meet mrs. Davies,

wife of the american

ambassador.

How do you do,

maria.

How do you do.

Oh, thank you.

Where did you learn

to speak english?

To night school.

At night school,

maria.

At night school.

It is so easy to forget,

no, mrs. Davies?

But you

do wonderfully.

Oh, how proud i'd be

if i could do that

well with russian.

Perhaps someday we shall

all speak the same language.

Look. Look at them.

They are a crack regiment of ski troops.

They're on maneuvers.

Miss davies, mr. Grosjean.

How do you do?

This is your command?

Yes, major. The finest

regiment in the army.

I could never go back

to the cavalry now.

It's much too slow

after this.

Ha ha!

Aah!

What'd she say?

She says you'd better have some hot tea

before you

catch cold.

Oh, thank you.

Um... spasibo.

Spasibo. Are you

both americans?

Uh-huh.

Yes.

Are you married, yes?

Oh, no. Ha ha ha!

No, i'm a mining engineer on a

little vacation from stalingrad.

Her father just blackmailed

me into being a nursemaid.

Don't you

believe it.

He's been camping on my

doorstep for two solid weeks.

But i meant that about the

tea. May i get it for you?

Oh, yes. Thank you.

Can you do that?

Me? No!

Well, then, we'd better

start learning.

Major kamenev?

Yes?

How long

would it take you

to teach me

to dance like that?

You really want to learn

our russian dances?

Of course! For the

diplomatic ball tonight.

We don't dance

like that at a ball.

Tonight there will

be mostly waltzes.

Oh, i was afraid of that.

Daddy and i get so bored

at anything formal,

but we have to go.

Your father is in

the diplomatic court?

Yes. American.

The new ambassador?

Yes.

Of course. The ball is being

given for him at spiridonovka.

How did you know?

I live there.

I am tanya litvinov.

Oh, how do you do,

miss litvinov.

How do you do?

Do you commissars have any time

left for your private lives?

Why, yes. Every

now and then

we all take time off

and go fishing.

Fishing? But where?

Oh, at parties

like this.

This is the first

formal reception

the soviet union has ever

given to a foreign diplomat.

So i understand, sir. It is

a great honor to my country.

Don't worry over

miss davies.

Marshal tukhachevsky has

a lady love of his own.

Why didn't he

bring her here?

And you have read

karl marx?

Yes, we had to study it in

our sociology class at vassar.

I can't say i enjoyed it

very much, though.

Perhaps if

you look into it again

now that you are

in russia.

Marshal tukhachevsky,

you wouldn't be

trying to convert me,

by any chance now,

would you?

I suppose we in america

still think of european

diplomacy as it used to be-

intrigue being whispered

behind a fan.

Well, we no longer

have the fans.

Ah. Ha ha!

Well, mrs. Davies,

shall we go?

Oh, mrs. Davies, may

i introduce mr. Bukharin,

mr. Vesya, mr. Radik,

our most distinguished

journalist,

and mr. Yagoda, commissar

of internal affairs.

How do

you do, gentlemen?

How do you do,

mrs. Davies?

We are envying

commissar litvinov

his most

agreeable duty.

Oh! And i thought chivalry

was discouraged in russia.

My dear mrs. Davies,

you can't discourage human nature.

A philosopher.

Shall we, mrs. Davies?

Who's the

distinguished-looking man

with the stars on

his uniform there

talking to mr. Davies?

Oh, a marshal of the red army

- timoshenko.

Ambassador.

Timoshenko.

I heard in geneva about your promotion.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

I've been meaning to

ask you about your trip.

How are things in geneva?

You will excuse me,

gentlemen.

I'm only a soldier.

Come. Let us have

a cigar together.

I hear that you have done some

parachute jumping, miss litvinov.

Yes. I am a student

in the reserve corps.

We practice every week.

So, are there

a great many of you?

I'm afraid i don't know,

mr. Shigematsu.

How many parachutists

do you have in japan?

Our young people prefer

other forms of sports.

Yes. I have seen some recent

pictures of them from china.

Miss litvinov,

i wonder if i might-

excuse me.

Oh, i beg your pardon.

Do i interrupt

diplomatic affairs?

Not at all, colonel.

Do you know ambassador shigematsu?

Oh, yes. Of course.

We met years ago

in tokyo.

Colonel faymonville is

a great student of japan.

He has worked very hard

to understand us.

Well, thank you very much.

It's quite

a difficult subject.

Would you care to dance,

miss litvinov?

Yes, thank you.

You'll excuse us?

There was a time when the future

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