Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Molotov Plan. Nine nations-the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland and Albania-had declined invitations to the conference. It was a hard decision for the trade-hungry Czechs; their Communist Premier Klement Gottwald had flown to Moscow, telephoned to the Cabinet at Prague the night the decision was made. "What else could we do?" said a non-Communist official in Prague. For being good, the Czechs got another Russian treaty and a promise of 200,000 tons of wheat...
Talk of a "Molotov plan" for Eastern Europe, to counterbalance the "Marshall approach," began to be heard in Europe. Unfortunately for the Molotov plan, what most Eastern European nations needed was machines and manufactured goods, and those were what Russia needed...
...Europe, split by Molotov, now line up? Russia herself had shut herself out of the European economy since the Revolution, but most of the nations that had become Soviet satellites had formerly had economic ties with the rest of Europe. These eight countries have a total population of 87 million. The 16 European countries represented at Paris have a total population of 218 million...
Empty Chairs. Nations, like men, had to take sides. By the time Molotov's plane was nearing the Kremlin, Ernie Bevin once more met with Georges Bidault ("that dear little man," in Ernie's words). They issued invitations for a session to all European nations except Russia-though she was free to come in any time she chose-and Spain...
Dimitroff spoke English with a thick accent and democracy with a ring of conviction. He read an appeal for "the creation of a democratic International Peasant Union and eventual realization of the United States of Europe." Dimitroff left no doubt where he stood in what Molotov called the "division of Europe." Ferenc Nagy, Hungary's ex-Premier and leader of its Smallholders' Party, sat beside him and nodded approval. Nagy had already symbolically established kinship with the U.S. by donning an American Indian headdress on a recent visit...