Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Soviet Ambassador Oumansky was closeted frequently with U.S. Under Secretary of State Welles. But in Moscow, Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov had no appointments with U.S. Ambassador Steinhardt. The onetime New York attorney, who had been doing foreign chores for the Administration ever since he campaigned for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, and who had kept his fingers wisely crossed on Russo-German friendship since last fall, continued his enforced policy of keeping his eyes open though the Kremlin doors remained closed...
Europe's two stanchest neutrals remained stanchly neutral: Switzerland and Turkey. Turkey apparently accepted Russia's denial that Foreign Commissar Molotov had asked Hitler for bases on the Dardanelles. To a French request for passage of troops to Syria, Turkey said...
...Dictator Joseph Stalin succeeds Viacheslav Molotov as Premier of U.S.S.R...
Joseph Stalin did not even issue a proclamation; he was as silent as the grave. The talking was taken over by those two good friends, Foreign Commissar Molotov and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Molotov exhorted the Russian people to fight against "the clique of bloodthirsty Fascist rulers." Ribbentrop: "Bolshevist Moscow is about to stab National Socialist Germany in the back while she is engaged in a struggle for her existence." Before this war ended, either Stalin or Hitler would no longer be a great dictator...
...U.S.S.R.'s Premier Molotov arrives in Berlin, talks with Nazis in "an atmosphere of mutual confidence...