Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet Russian demands on a German peace treaty. Germany is still the key country of Europe, if only because Europe cannot recover without German production. The Russians know this, and know also that the Western powers intend to put Western Germany to work for Europe. At London Molotov countered by attempting again to delay a German peace settlement, covering up his intention with a shameless bid for German favor. German Communists promptly seconded Molotov by adopting the slogan: "The Fatherland is in danger." In fact, the U.S. and Britain favor (and France will accept) a unified Germany. What the Western...
Good Saint. Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov was given the seat with the best view, through the front windows overlooking St. James's Park and, in the distance, Buckingham Palace. Across from Molotov sat France's Georges Bidault, unobtrusive, yet bearing himself as though France were in the European ascendancy...
...Molotov was in familiar form, thundering that only the Soviet Union desired a "democratic, peace"-that the other great powers sought an "imperialist peace" and were stirring up a new war. Bevin turned his heaviest humor on that. Said he: "We are used to it now, being called warmongers. The only good saint in the world is the Soviet Union. As for the rest of us, we all come from somewhere down below, I suppose." Molotov smiled a wintry ghost of a smile...
...wrathful over Russia's "calculated campaign of vilification and distortion of American motives in foreign affairs." The U.S. had one objective in Europe: restore Europe's peace and economic equilibrium. With that objective he was going to London to sit with Molotov, Bevin and Bidault on the fate of Germany and Austria. "My purpose [is] to concentrate solely on finding an acceptable basis of agreement to terminate the present tragic stalemate," he said...
This week Marshall faced Molotov. He would no longer tolerate Soviet tactics which had turned other conferences into sounding boards for interminable Soviet propaganda. If no agreements were to be reached, then the conference must end and the Soviet Union and the U.S. must go their antithetical ways in Europe. That was what Marshall now intended: an understanding, even if it was an understanding that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were in irreconcilable disagreement...