Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year: Vyacheslav Molotov, by a walk...
...broke up early. It mattered little, for only disagreement was on the order of the day (see below). King George and Queen Elizabeth were giving an "evening party" at Buckingham Palace. The Russians arrived with their bodyguards, but left them in the courtyard. In the lofty Blue Drawing Room, Molotov and colleagues stuck together in a tight little knot and touched neither the champagne cup nor the whiskey and sherry. They did not even smoke. George Marshall stuck with U.S. Ambassador Douglas. Winston Churchill, looking as gloomy as his frock coat, left early. The King talked to Molotov a little...
...Secretary of State George Marshall, stuck it out in London, Dulles went to Paris to take a look at France's battle against the Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). In London, the Foreign Ministers were still hammer-locked in a weary, heavy-breathing propaganda match. Day after day, Vyacheslav Molotov untiringly obstructed any specific action on the peace treaties for Germany and Austria; at the same time he spent hours denouncing the U.S. for sabotaging the peace...
...Only Unanimous Thing. . . ." But encased among the Molotov allegations that day had been the pregnant phrase "a central democratic all-German government." The others appeared to pay no attention, at first. But next morning, studying the transcripts, U.S. and British delegates realized that the phrase could not be ignored. Molotov was talking straight to German nationalism and the grandstand of German public opinion, while Communist fellow travelers in the U.S. were accusing Washington of bidding for German favor...
...conferees had little time for parties and games. Thanksgiving Day, Bevin and Marshall found time for a noon meal of turkey and brussels sprouts with the American Society. One day Marshall dropped around to 28 Hyde Park Gate and had lunch with Winston Churchill. On Sunday, Molotov, with some dialectical-devotional time on his hands, drove out to Highgate Cemetery, where he laid a wreath on the grave of Karl Marx. Next day, pleading previous engagements, he turned down George Marshall's invitation to lunch...