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...most provocative question came innocently enough: "Do you expect to see Foreign Commissar Molotov before the [San Francisco] conference?" Harry Truman said he did. Firmly he said that the Soviet official would stop by and pay his respects to the President of the United States. The President of the United States added: he should. It had been a long time since White House reporters had cheered a President's answer, but they clapped and laughed and cheered for a full minute...
...Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov waved a grey fedora and smiled when he stepped from a U.S. Army plane at Washington's airport this week. Greeted by Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Mr. Molotov kept on smiling and stared at a point midway between the Secretary of State's chin and navel. Posing later with Stettinius, Anthony Eden, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and Ambassadors Harriman and Gromyko, the Foreign Commissar stared at nothing in particular (see cut}. Mr. Molotov's companions regarded this as encouraging...
...Francis hotel, reveled in three eggs apiece for breakfast, promptly obtained 18 shoe stamps (for some 60 delegates and consultants). A Russian ship brought quantities of caviar, vodka and champagne to be dispensed in a Pacific Heights house rented for entertainment. For the delegation's head, Foreign Commissar Molotov, the State Department had been asked to supply 1) a bullet-proof car, 2) an armed escort...
...Moscow. At U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman's Spasso House a gay party was breaking up when the news came. The shocked Ambassador telephoned Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, who sped the word on to Marshal Joseph Stalin and then drove over to Spasso House to voice his condolences. Behind the Kremlin's pink walls lights burned late and long, as Franklin Roosevelt's host at Yalta wrote messages to Franklin Roosevelt's widow and to his successor: "My sympathy in your great sorrow. . . . The Soviet people highly value . . . the leader in the cause of insuring...
...coming of Foreign Secretary Molotov to the conference would be welcomed as an expression of earnest cooperation. . . . The President would look forward with pleasure to a visit by Mr. Molotov to Washington. .. ." Forthwith, Stalin ordered Foreign Commissar Molotov to Washington and San Francisco. Stalin, believing all along that the major decisions on the new world organization had already been made, probably attached no more importance to the conference than he had before. But he was undoubtedly curious about the new man in the White House...