Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time Has Come." In a sense, there never had been a conference in London at all. Vyacheslav Molotov had not come to confer. The Russians, fully aware that the Western powers would not agree to treaties that gave Russia control of central Europe, had another end in view. Molotov had come to make propaganda, mostly addressed to the Germans. The climax came on the 16th day at the table. Molotov started off with his usual sputter of accusations against the West. Said George Marshall: "Perversion and deliberate misconstruction. . . ." Then he again demanded a clear statement of Soviet policy. Said Molotov...
...demands that Russia stop taking reparations from current German production; he also refused any information on past Russian seizures in Germany. His tone was so aggressive that it seemed to leave no room for further talk. At a real conference, that would have been regretted. But in London last week, one U.S. delegation member sighed gratefully: "Molotov has taken us off the hook...
...Molotov been seemingly conciliatory, the U.S. would have been forced to continue wading through the marsh of statistics, accusations and debaters' petty triumphs. Although Marshall and Bevin wanted German and Austrian treaties with the Russians, they knew as well as Molotov that the real purpose of the London meeting was not to confer but to propagandize. Marshall's words and tactics at the table made it clear that what he sought there (agreement being impossible) was world understanding of the misunderstanding. He was trying to demonstrate once & for all that true negotiations with the Russians were not possible...
...remarkable London speech, Vyacheslav Molotov made a number of assertions. Many of them were of a more or less technical nature with which the average German, for instance, was not acquainted. They bore examination...
...John McCormack in a duet from The Barber of Seville. Then came the evening's climax: the much-bruited new Russian ballet, whose 21-year-old star, Vaslav Nijinsky, had all Europe abuzz with the grace of his dancing and the power of his leaps. That night, London's applause was added to the Continent...