The Kremlin Talks to the Vatican
SIR,--I read with interest the serious article (April 29) by Dev Murarka, but there is a lighter side. . . . In July 1963 I encountered Mr Adzhubei in the Tropicana music-hall in Havana. It was Cuba's national day. and the music-hall—unchanged since the days of Batista-- was practically empty except for two ringside tables, one occupied by the Soviet Ambassador and his guests, the other by the British Chargé and his. Mr Ad/hubei stole the most attrac- tive member of our party for a dance. and as. ho two-stepped by I called out to him. 'How did you get on with Pope John?' He made a long nose at me as he passed.
Later with the Soviet Ambassador he joined our table, and I repeated my question. This time he replied with great gravity. 'The Pope told me we were following different paths to the same end'— surely a statement which not even the most ardent
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