Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 18, 1940, after the fall of Holland, Belgium and France, German Ambassador to Moscow Count von der Schulenburg reported: "Molotov . . . expressed the warmest congratulations of the Soviet government on the splendid success of the German armed forces...
This cartoon shows the schizophrenic selection by the Winnipeg Tribune of two-Marshall and Molotov...
...story continued in the land to which New Jersey's cargo was addressed. In Jerusalem's sacred Old Walled City, violent fighting broke out. Arabs claimed that the Jews started it, retaliated with "Molotov cocktails" (bottles filled with gasoline and ignited). At week's end, Jewish terrorists blasted Arab headquarters in Jaffa and Jerusalem, killed 34, wounded 100. At sunrise one morning, on the Mount of Olives, the Jews of Jerusalem buried their own dead of the last week's fighting, while British soldiers stood guard against Arab snipers. The living, among both Jews and Arabs...
...slander. The violence of their reaction attested to the effectiveness of Marshall's blow. Three months later, in the cream-and-gold salon of Lancaster House in London, the Secretary delivered the coup de gráce to the last false postwar hopes. Barely suppressing his anger through Molotov's interminable dialectics, he finally, impatiently, called for an adjournment. A campaign had ended...
...people were in the middle of it. They had not been put there by George Marshall alone. Their decision had been shaped, in part, by the pressure of events -starvation and despair in Europe, the cynical and ruthless policies of Joseph Stalin, the stubborn, mendacious methods of Molotov, the calculated rantings of Andrei Vishinsky...