Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Russia's Premier Molotov flew home from Washington he took an "understanding . . . with regard to the urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe in 1942." If this urgent task—to land on the Continent to keep the Nazis from crushing Russia and turning their full strength against the U.S. and Britain—becomes a necessity this summer, the second front may be launched before the U.S. and Britain feel able to do so successfully. Such a "sacrificial second front" would have the attendant risks of heavy losses and of heavy drain on the United Nations' growing...
There was, for example, the comparatively petty problem of the Baltic States -Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. It has been an open secret in England that, as an earnest of Britain's sincerity, Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov had asked for British endorsement of Russia's title to the Baltic States (which had been Russian before 1918 as well as between June 1940 and June 1941). Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was presently embarrassed by a protest from a delegation of 20 ultra-Conservative M.P.s, headed by excitable Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, whose present job is aide...
...these shouts, the Guard grew. Tom Wintringham gave it a training pattern in his guerrilla school at Osterley Park, the estate of the Earl of Jersey and his U.S. wife, onetime Cinemactress Virginia Cherrill. There in weekly batches Home Guard officers were trained in mak-ing hand grenades, using Molotov cocktails, wrecking tank treads. After a year of fighting for more armaments and more accent on guerrilla tactics, Wintringham resigned. The War Office, which suspected his politics, was glad to see him go. He was replaced by a safe man-Major General Viscount Bridgeman, the mild-mannered, sharp-eyed Etonian...
...Before that, when Mr. Davies was Ambassador to Russia, the yacht was moored in Leningrad's harbor. Before he took the Sea Cloud to Communist Russia, Mr. Davies was somewhat fearful that such capitalist swank might trouble the proletarian waters. He said as much to Russian Foreign Minister Molotov. "Of course, bring her over," said Molotov. "But would she be safe from sabotage?" persisted Mr. Davies. "Sabotage?" said Mr. Molotov. "Why, she'd be safer here from sabotage than she would be in New York harbor." No sabotage occurred...
...possible that old Juho has been sent to Moscow again, because he got on so well with Stalin before. The Finns hope for better terms from Stalin than from Molotov. But this time old Juho will have to be quick to the point and clear-cut in his demands if he wants peace for Finland...