Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roosevelt and Churchill flew to Teheran (the Chiangs had left Cairo for China). Big missions were with the President and Prime Minister. Only Foreign Minister Viacheslav M. Molotov and Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov accompanied Stalin on his first trip outside Russia since the Revolution...
...face and spent their first hour together. Stalin had simply walked over on the gravel path from another of the Embassy houses, his living quarters for the meeting. An hour later Churchill and Eden walked in from the British Embassy, directly across the street, and joined the group with Molotov...
...Friends. Molotov started the social ball rolling with a tea on Sunday, at which the delegates showed some awe of one another, and Stalin took it on himself to move around and get everyone talking. But the ice was broken with a vengeance at dinner, and stayed broken. Stalin enthusiastically sipped Roosevelt's special Martinis (the President decided against trying out old-fashioneds). Toasts were mostly in champagne, but Churchill stuck to his favorite still wines...
...saluted the President twice over, as "Roosevelt the President" and "Roosevelt the Man." The party roared on in high good humor, until young Private Hopkins' eyes were boggling out at the flow of liquor and the animated scenes around him: General Marshall and Randolph Churchill talking to Elliott; Molotov excitedly talking with Eden and Cadogan; Hap Arnold laboriously exchanging anecdotes with Voroshilov...
Anthony Eden last week told the House of Commons what he could about his talks in Moscow with Cordell Hull and Viacheslav Molotov and his subsequent conference with Turkey's Numan Menemencioglu. He made two salient points: 1) knotty issues still remain to be settled; 2) because the U.S.S.R., Great Britain and the U.S. have assumed the final responsibility for reshaping Europe, they must have unfettered freedom to make the final decisions.*Said...