Word: molotov
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...sorry, old Big Four pattern, the haggling over shadows without getting to the substance, seemed to have descended on the Berlin conference. Molotov insisted on his order of business; the West wanted to cut straight to the central issue, Germany. But Dulles finished off his response with gentle surprise. "I propose that we refuse to be discouraged and get ahead with our business . . . Mr. Molotov has proposed an agenda. It is not an agenda which we would propose, but it is an agenda which we will take for the sake of getting on with our work...
Bidault and Eden quickly concurred-they had settled on the maneuver that morning. Molotov, though it showed little in his cool, confident manner, was ruffled...
...leaned to his right to murmur something to Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who scribbled a hasty note. Then Molotov rambled for 25 minutes before launching into the agenda so surprisingly agreed...
...third day, Dulles proposed to move on to the business that brought the West to Berlin-Germany. Bidault pounced on Molotov's proposal that the Big Four invite Red China to a full-scale peace parley next spring. "China is aiding the rebels in Indo-China in a war that is killing many French people and causing much suffering in France," said he. "France cannot ignore this. As long as this situation lasts, we cannot meet with the Chinese People's Republic." But he did not shut the door all the way. "If the facts should change...
...Vyacheslav Molotov had come armed with all the tools and tricks of the trade he works so well. To despairing France he hinted broadly that a conference with Red China might produce an end to the blood drain of Indo-China. For straitened Britain he depicted a landscape fruity with profitable trade behind the Iron Curtain. "Only a few countries," said he, with a glance at Dulles, "don't want to trade with Russia and China. Most...