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...room that held both Bevin and Molotov would never be mistaken for a college reunion. But after the table-thumping displays of bad manners at London, the air of sober, workmanlike cordiality at Moscow seemed reassuring...
Stalin's return from Sochi was the conference turning-point. Suntanned and rested after his 68-day holiday, he had long separate sessions with Bevin and Byrnes. Soon afterwards the conference developed an obvious feeling of buoyancy, previously missing. Once more, apparently, Stalin had proved himself the only Russian who can make quick decisions. But if the log jam had been broken, the drive was still a long way from smooth water...
...would peacemaking be resumed? While Byrnes and Bevin regularly saw the French and Chinese Ambassadors, the authoritative New Times said that Russia favored continued (and exclusive) meetings of the Big Three. Meanwhile, Jimmy Byrnes tried some personal peacemaking in the Balkans. He agreed to recognize Tito's Yugoslav Republic, though pointing to "its failure to implement the guarantee of personal freedom" laid down at Yalta. Bevin followed suit. At London, Byrnes had tried to ease the tension by recognizing Hungary. Washington thought he might now do the same with Rumania and Bulgaria, though their one-front regimes were...
...Moscow Jimmy Byrnes and Ernie Bevin recognized the move as a typical Russian conference tactic. They recalled the sudden announcement of a Soviet-sponsored Austrian government during the San Francisco conference, and the Russian recognition of the Lublin Poles just before Yalta. The claim to Trabzon was also recognizable as another stathmos in the Russian march toward the Mediterranean...
Said Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton: "The great amount of debt we bring out of the war is indeed a strange reward for all we in this island did and suffered." Ernest Bevin frankly compared the U.S. to "a money lender." Raged Conservative Robert Boothby: "This is our economic Munich." Laborite Norman Smith chimed in that the U.S. was treating Britain as a defeated enemy forced to accept the victor's terms...