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...second week, the Big Four Foreign Ministers' Conference was caught in the ice floes of deadlock over Germany. Molotov had plainly shown that he was no more willing than Stalin had been to break the jam over divided Germany's future. The Westerners had to keep chipping away anyhow: they had come to Berlin either to 1) find agreement, or 2) show all the world that Moscow's policy is still not peace but pretense...
...there had been any hope that Molotov would prove conciliatory, it ended when the Russian presented Moscow's version of the way to reunite Germany...
...Western ministers flatly rejected Molotov's proposal. Their objections were many. The Russian plan would set up all Germany for an ultimate Communist coup. Even those Frenchmen who oppose German rearmament inside a European Army (EDC) were alarmed at German "national armed forces" as an alternative. It looked dangerously like the Reichswehr, which Hitler had built into the Wehrmacht. As for Molotov's proposal that each occupying nation withdraw all its troops from Germany, Bidault commented wryly: "I can well see the advantages for the Soviet Union in withdrawing part of its troops a few dozen kilometers...
Quotes for Salt. Faced with Molotov's icy rigidity, the Western ministers replied with polite but telling effect. To Molotov's monotonous charges that the West is conspiring to start a new world war, John Foster Dulles pointed...
...sometimes been wrong . . . I recall that Mr. Molotov was wrong in October 1939, when he condemned France and Britain as being aggressors and praised Hitlerite Germany as being the peace-seeking country." Dulles threw in a batch of Molotov's own 1939 quotes to make the wound saltier. Example: "It is not only senseless but criminal to wage such a war-a war for the destruction of Hitlerism camouflaged as 'a fight for democracy...