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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...
How 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...
To Russian pleasure, Byrnes had learned to use the word soglasen ("I agree")* Molotov was equally diplomatic, threw in an occasional "O.K."
*Byrnes also learned to say nyet, meaning "no." Molotov long ago learned the English word for nyet.
At 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...