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...Soviet Foreign Ministry moved to meet the new situation by an ingathering of ambassadors. From Washington came Georgy N. Zarubin, from London Jacob A. Malik, from Paris Alexei P. Pavlov, from Berlin Vladimir S. Semenov. At week's end they were in conference with Deputy Premier Molotov and other Soviet leaders. Whatever counteroffensive they worked out, it would be for the defense of Moscow, and the fighting as tough as the battles of Borodino...
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...Molotov himself, reported Churchill, had sent a message to the Turks offering to withdraw 1) Russian claims on Turkish territory, 2) demands for a share in the military control of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. Both proposals, in effect, add up only to a renunciation by the Russians of something which they have no prospect of gaining anyway (short of a war); nonetheless, Churchill regarded Molotov's message to an ancient enemy as perhaps the most important single gesture since Stalin's death...
Churchill told the assembled Prime Ministers: "I remarked to the Turkish Prime Minister that this Russian move showed how wise Turkey had been to join NATO. He observed to me, although Molotov had said nothing on this point, that it was plainly the Soviet hope that Turkey would stop building all those air bases which she is building under the NATO program. I said that, on the contrary, this was a time when we should hold together, and the Turkish Prime Minister [agreed...
...beaming more amiably. For a month or more, Yugoslav relations with the Soviet bloc had apparently been growing warmer-warmer than at any time since Tito broke with the Cominform nearly five years ago. The Yugoslav charge d'affaires in Moscow had been personally received by Foreign Minister Molotov, an unheard-of courtesy. Moscow was sending an envoy with the rank of minister to Belgrade, and an exchange of ambassadors was rumored. Criticism of Yugoslavia in the Russian press had almost disappeared. The Belgrade spokesmen, in turn, had been saying that they wanted to "regularize" relations with the Soviet...