Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most provocative question came innocently enough: "Do you expect to see Foreign Commissar Molotov before the [San Francisco] conference?" Harry Truman said he did. Firmly he said that the Soviet official would stop by and pay his respects to the President of the United States. The President of the United States added: he should. It had been a long time since White House reporters had cheered a President's answer, but they clapped and laughed and cheered for a full minute...
...conference opened this week, Arthur Vandenberg was unquestionably the most important U.S. delegate present, and perhaps the single most important man. Molotov would loom large because of the power he wields by proxy from the Kremlin; Eden would command consideration as the spokesman and heir apparent of Churchill. But by & large the success of a world security organization would stand or fall on the question of U.S. adherence. And the answer to that question lay with Senator Vandenberg...
...perhaps on Harry Hopkins (who returned to the Mayo Clinic after Franklin Roosevelt's funeral). Yet, before his Administration was 48 hours old, Truman scored a major diplomatic coup in persuading an apparently willing Joseph Stalin, whom he has never met, to send Foreign Affairs Commissar Viacheslav Molotov to the San Francisco conference (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Moscow. At U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman's Spasso House a gay party was breaking up when the news came. The shocked Ambassador telephoned Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, who sped the word on to Marshal Joseph Stalin and then drove over to Spasso House to voice his condolences. Behind the Kremlin's pink walls lights burned late and long, as Franklin Roosevelt's host at Yalta wrote messages to Franklin Roosevelt's widow and to his successor: "My sympathy in your great sorrow. . . . The Soviet people highly value . . . the leader in the cause of insuring...
...coming of Foreign Secretary Molotov to the conference would be welcomed as an expression of earnest cooperation. . . . The President would look forward with pleasure to a visit by Mr. Molotov to Washington. .. ." Forthwith, Stalin ordered Foreign Commissar Molotov to Washington and San Francisco. Stalin, believing all along that the major decisions on the new world organization had already been made, probably attached no more importance to the conference than he had before. But he was undoubtedly curious about the new man in the White House...