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Make It Snappy! When the ministers and their staffs filed through gilded double doors into the Salle Victor Hugo, everyone tried hard to relax, joking with old friends, shaking hands with new. The air was soon blue with tobacco smoke. Georges Bidault, apparently putting aside for the occasion the worry of trying to form a new Cabinet, squirmed agilely through the pack in his capacity of host-he failed to notice the repressed wince as he inadvertently trod on Molotov's toe. It was Molotov who set the tone by greeting his old enemy Bevin with "Davaite govorit korotko...
...Trieste, Viacheslav Molotov gave a party for 600 at the palatial Soviet Embassy with a very lush, very Russian buffet. After the deadlock on the Italian colonies, Ernest Bevin did the honors for 800 at the even more palatial British Embassy, with a much more austere buffet. Cinderella-like, Bidault, Byrnes and Molotov left on the stroke of midnight; no sooner had they gone than Bevin cracked his party's glaze of tension by foxtrotting with Lady Diana Duff Cooper...
...disagreement be summarized and submitted to a 21-power peace conference on June 15, with an acknowledgment that the Big Four had failed to agree. He sat back, winked at Arthur Vandenberg, awaited reactions. For five long minutes-"it seemed like 30," said one witness-nobody spoke. Then Bidault said quietly that this seemed like a good idea. Bevin nodded thoughtfully.* Molotov whispered into the ear of Interpreter Vladimir Pavlov, who announced that Russia would like to think it over...
Britain's Ernie Bevin and France's Georges Bidault approved the Byrnes plan in principle, but Russia's Viacheslav Molotov promptly countered that before he discussed a treaty to assure Germany's disarmament he would have to know just how far Germany had been disarmed. Tass, the Soviet news agency, was more explicit. It asked whether all Nazi military units had been "really dispersed" in the British zone and said that U.S. authorities, "for some reason or other," had let the Germans keep secret war enterprises...
Things actually began better than anyone had hoped. In the first five minutes Molotov agreed to let Host Georges Bidault discuss the Finnish and Balkan treaties-the very issue that had broken up the Foreign Ministers' meeting at London last autumn. Next Molotov budged a little from Russia's insistence that Italy pay $300,000,000 in reparations; he helped pick a committee to decide what Italy could pay. In the sessions that followed he made a series of small concessions on the Italian peace treaty...