Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norway to share Spitsbergen with the Soviet Union, and to cede neighboring Bear Island outright. Trygve Lie, then Norway's Foreign Minister, refused. In April 1945, Russia tried again, suggested a joint regional defense system. Nothing came of that, either. At the U.N. Assembly last November, Foreign Minister Molotov reminded Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard M. Lange that Russia was still interested...
Sweet & Sour. Readers who followed Molotov, Gromyko & Co. through recent international conferences will recognize the exasperating Soviet sweet-sour game, though in 1943-45 the exasperation was probably not all one-sided. The U.S. had reservations, too (e.g., U.S. airmen were briefed to destroy certain devices and documents in the event of forced landings on Russian soil). But, as allies go, the U.S. was certainly openhanded-and in return, its chief representative was snubbed, given the runaround, even scolded. "I was in a high dudgeon much of the time," says General Deane...
...make concessions in the open. It also demonstrated some more important points: 1) that the West could find propaganda answers to Russian propaganda; 2) that Byrnes had been right in his insistence that the small nations be heard, and 3) that Byrnes could be just as stubborn as Molotov. The Paris Conference was boring, but it marked the turning of the Russian tide. That "quack, quack" turned out to be the voice of history...
...York sessions of U.N. and the Foreign Ministers the going got sticky again. Byrnes asked Molotov, who likes a little bullbatting himself, up to his room in the Waldorf-Astoria. Informally, the two began to make progress. When the formal sessions ended, Byrnes had a deal on Trieste, Molotov had agreed to discuss treaties with Germany and Austria, and the U.S. resolution on disarmament had passed the U.N. Assembly...
Byrnes has read little; he lacks the born statesman's personal dignity. The other night at U.N. he pushed and elbowed through the hat-check crowd for 15 minutes, while Bevin and Molotov went out special exits after having their coats brought to them...