Word: molotov
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...sovereignty for the first time. In Paris, where Dulles, Britain's Macmillan, France's Pinay and eleven other NATO foreign ministers received der Alte in their midst, I sat on a wad of gum. In Vienna, the suit got soaked again in the rain that fell while Molotov was signing the Austrian State Treaty. And here in Belgrade, it got covered with dust on the ride from the airport behind Tito and Khrushchev. Poor suit. It's a mess...
...when the Russians began to complain with more and more insistence that he was not listening to their advice, Tito professed bewilderment. In the exchange of letters with Stalin and Molotov in 1948 which led to his excommunication from the Communist ecclesia, there was an air of incredulity that the Russians really did not mean what they said about the independent nature of each people's democracy. Answering a Soviet charge that its Soviet military advisers were treated with "hostility," Tito protested: "We are amazed, we cannot understand, and we are deeply hurt." Wouldn't the Soviet government...
...answer, signed by Stalin and Molotov, was an eight-page letter delivered by Russian Ambassador Lavrentiev in person. Tito received the letter, laid it on his desk and read it standing up. It began: "We consider your answer untruthful and therefore wholly unsatisfactory." Said Tito, recalling the moment recently: "Scanning the opening line, I felt as if a thunderbolt had struck me. Lavrentiev peered at me coolly to see what my reaction would be. I never winced; I contained myself as much as I possibly could. Lavrentiev could no longer endure it, and before I had scanned the whole letter...
...first Tito tried to mollify Big Brother. In a series of exchanges, their difference became clear: "Even though we love the U.S.S.R., we cannot love our own country any less," he wrote Stalin and Molotov. "We feel it is incorrect for the Soviet Intelligence Service to recruit our citizens in our country for their service [and] to have cast doubts on our leaders...
Political Career: "Judas Tito and his abettors have transformed Yugoslavia into a Gestapo prison. The whole of progressive mankind looks with loathing upon those despised traitors" (Marshal Bulganin). "Spies and provocateurs" (Foreign Minister Molotov). "The fascist Tito's clique is a gang of British-American hired spies and murderers ... a despicable band of traitors and betrayers of their motherland" (Nikita Khrushchev). "The workers have long since discerned the vile and repulsive snout of the Belgrade deserter, hireling, spy and murderer, bankrupt fascist traitor." (Literary Gazette...