Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold and sleety day last ' week, Japanese Ambassador Naotake Sato entered the Foreign Commissariat in Mos cow. He had been summoned by Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, who had some Jap-shaking news...
What Next? Molotov's note was neither a declaration of war nor, necessarily, of intent to go to war. Legally, the treaty still had a year to run after the notice of cancellation. But the Foreign Commissar's tone suggested that this technicality might be brushed aside at Russia's convenience...
There were other possible reasons: Molotov already had more than he could do, what with the German problem coming up, the Polish problem unsettled, the known shortage of qualified personnel in the U.S.S.R.'s foreign services. Certainly Stalin did not attach as much importance to the world conference as Churchill and Roosevelt did, or the Marshal would have let nothing stand in the way of Molotov's joining Eden and Stettinius at San Francisco. This week London dispatches reported that Eden might attend briefly, and perhaps not at all. In its mood of international depression last week, Washington...
...Yalta, the Big Three had agreed in principle to concert their policies on the new Poland, replace Russia's Lublin lackeys with a government which would be fairly representative and suit the U.S. and Britain as well as the U.S.S.R. After a month of negotiation in Moscow, Molotov had not given an inch to British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman. They wanted an honestly reorganized government, representing all Poles except those hopelessly hostile to Russia. Mr. Molotov was willing to enlarge the government, but only with Poles acceptable to the original Lubliners...
...death, as in life, his colleagues honored Boris Shaposhnikov. Headed by Marshal Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov, Red marshals, generals and high Soviet officials shouldered his flag-draped, flower-draped coffin and carried it down the dimly lit Okhotny Road to a waiting car which took it to the crematorium...