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...Foreign Commissar Molotov was tougher than ever before, and more tightly bound by his instructions. U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes offered him a compromise (virtually excluding France from Balkan discussions) which was generous to the point of humiliation. Molotov cabled home for instructions, got an answer: "Stick to your brief...
...bedroom story measured Molotov's own suspicions. When Foreign Commissar Molotov visited Clement Attlee at the Prime Minister's quiet summer home, Chequers, the Russian brought a Russian chambermaid. In stiff disapproval the regular Chequers maid looked on while the Russian woman made Molotov's bed. The eyes of the English maid nearly popped when the pillow was lifted. There lay a long, fat pistol...
Biggest social event was Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's dreary cocktail party in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. The most conspicuous guests were the broad-shouldered, anonymous young men clustered around Foreign Commissar Molotov. Their hip pockets bulged. Said a Briton: "Damme! Pistols in the House of Lords. Incredible...
...Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was at the airport to meet Groza and his entourage of Ministers. Later Generalissimo Stalin entertained him at a "cordial, friendly" dinner at the Kremlin...
Treaty of Friendship. While Chiang grappled with "open rebellion," his brother-in-law, Premier T. V. Soong, hurried from the Kremlin to the White House. On & off since early July, he had been talking in Moscow with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. In his pocket Premier Soong carried a signed treaty of friendship and alliance between Russia and China...