Word: molotov
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...Molotov, with his eye on Europe, stated publicly his own reason for wanting a ceasefire. Geneva showed, he said, that there was no dispute that could not be settled by negotiation. He scarcely waited to get back to Moscow before he put this strategy to work by formally suggesting a new four-power conference on "European security." As Molotov calculated, the timid and the neutralists set up an immediate cry against precipitate action on EDC or West German sovereignty, before "one more try" at agreement on Germany, Nobody explained why the Communists, having just divided Indo-China, should...
Mendès had scarcely returned to his villa Joli-Port when Molotov arrived. Was it true that the U.S. would refuse to sign the agreement? the Russian demanded. If so. the cease-fire might not be acceptable to Russia. Mendès scurried over to the Hotel du Rhône, where U.S. Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith had taken dismally to his bed with lumbago...
Three hours later Mendès was back. He reported to Molotov that the U.S. would refuse to sign the same document as Red China, but would issue a unilateral declaration stating that the U.S. would take a serious view of any violation of an agreed armistice. Molotov accepted this formula with only faint protest. "Ouf!" exclaimed Mendès in relief...
...week's end Mendèes hurried off to Geneva, where Molotov was waiting for him. Before he left, he sent Ambassador
Sorest Point. Listening to his speech, political pundits concluded that Eden had decided the Bevan brand of anti-Americanism had become politically popular. He went out of his way to pay "my personal tribute" to Molotov, welcomed the "opportunity to meet Chou En-lai," praised France's Bidault and Mendes-France, and even had a word of praise for the U.S.'s Bedell Smith. But he pointedly had no word for Secretary of State Dulles. He pressed hard on the sorest point in the touchy U.S.-British relationship: the recognition of Red China. "There is no doubt that...