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Berlin offered no such bait. Molotov was forced to define the Communist position in terms most repugnant to European neutralists and American wish-thinkers...
...only called for an abandonment of EDC (the European Army), but even insisted on the dismemberment of NATO and the total departure of U.S. military support from Europe-a step which French neutralists recognize as prostrating Western Europe before the Red army. On Germany and on Austria. Molotov was compelled to disclose the true Soviet position: the U.S.S.R. will yield not an inch of ground held by military occupation for the sake of European reconstruction or national independence or the hope of peace...
John Foster Dulles, in one of the great diplomatic performances of the generation, defined the anti-Communist position in terms so clear, so acceptable to Britons, Frenchmen and Germans that Molotov's room for propaganda maneuver was taken away. He was boxed into frankness by Dulles' skillful mixture of concession, firmness and lawyerlike analysis...
...first effect was in the relations be tween the Western allies. For several years, Britain, France and the U.S. have been drifting apart. One of Molotov's obvious goals was to widen the gaps. At Berlin, the Western Three closed ranks. Dulles. Eden and Bidault worked decisively together in a unity long dangerously absent...
Confronted with this united front, Molotov made another of his occasional contributions to the political education of the free world. Seen whole, the Communists' present world strategy as disclosed at Berlin is this...