Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Leary Flood, whose fortune originally came from the famous Comstock Lode (Nevada gold, silver). The facilities included a superb view of San Francisco's hills and bay, four bedrooms with bath, a circular library with a blue ceiling, and two love seats, upholstered in green, where Viacheslav Molotov and his consultants sat during the Big Power meetings...
When Translator Pavlov reported the result, Molotov quietly rose, quietly walked out. Most of the other Russians followed. Ambassador Gromyko stayed in his seat, as if to say that Russia was not deserting the conference. Said Britain's Lord Halifax, strolling from the hall: "I don't think this is the end of the world...
...Molotov's harassed interpreter, Vladimir Nikolayevich Pavlov, is a pallid, thin fellow of 29. Pavlov sometimes translates for Stalin. But he is Molotov's man, accompanies him everywhere. At Yalta his penetrating voice pleased President Roosevelt because it was so easily heard. Pavlov speaks English with a decided British accent, but has an accurate ear for the idiom and nuances of American speech...
Final Goad. The New York Post's self-styled Saloon Editor Earl Wilson, whose usual preoccupation is with movie stars' brassieres and "derrieres," interrupted Molotov's press conference to ask whether vodka was pronounced "wodka" and whether it could "be consumed . . . without fear of internal injury." This was the final goad to Scripps-Howard's Peter Edson, who promptly exploded in type...
...Some of the hacks in this business never seem to learn. . . . Obviously annoyed, Mr. Molotov broke off the interview, with a number of other more important questions still unasked...