Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talks with Stalin and Molotov. Marshall, at that very moment, was doing his best to reassure Britain's Bevin and France's Schuman of the consistency of U.S. diplomacy. The U.S., for example, had said it would not negotiate with Russia as long as she maintained the Berlin blockade. An announcement such as Mr. Truman planned would certainly shake British and French confidence in the U.S. The move would also look as though the U.S. was undercutting U.N. Moreover, what would Arthur Vandenberg and John Foster Dulles think? Could the Administration expect the Republicans to continue support...
...record, Dewey said simply and reassuringly that the U.S. is solidly behind "the labors of our bipartisan delegation at Paris and specifically its insistence on a prompt lifting of the blockade of Berlin." Said Dewey: "The nations of the world can rest assured that the American people are in fact united in their foreign policy and will firmly and unshakably uphold the United Nations...
...Sleeping Syrian. Vishinsky started off by denying that the Security Council was competent to deal with the Berlin issue. For the third time in two days, he repeated the same sledgehammer argument. "There is no blockade of Berlin . . . There is no threat to the peace . . . This fact is ineluctable, indubitable and inescapable . . . Only the Allied Control Council and the Foreign Ministers Council may correctly deal with the problem of Germany . . . If this question is not in relation to Germany, what is it? In the stratosphere? In the clouds? In an ivory tower...
Rather than order Vishinsky to walk out of the Council altogether (as Gromyko had been ordered to do over the Iran issue), Russia had decided that he was simply not to take part in the debate on Berlin. Next day, U.N. saw an incredible spectacle: a silent Vishinsky...
...Berlin debate started, Vishinsky took copious notes. Then he threw down his earphones and started to read a French Socialist paper. Then he started listening again. What he heard made him plainly uncomfortable...