Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because the new civil service (carefully purged of nonCommunists) includes many a Partisan who can barely read & write. Actually, the Government is well-stocked with Communist theoreticians. Tito's chief adviser is meticulous, humorless Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, 36, a former schoolmaster with a Goebbels limp and a Molotov mustache, who spent six years in Yugoslav prisons for writing Communist pamphlets. Later, he fled to Russia where he headed Odessa's Revolutionary School for the Balkans. Currently he writes most of Tito's prolific legislation and heads the Yugoslav delegation at the Paris Peace Conference...
Wherever it led-to Greece, Turkey, China, Korea-the U.S. apparently meant to go. Uncle Joe Stalin could put that in his pipe and smoke it. That was exactly what he was doing this week, when he summoned Molotov from Paris to the Kremlin (see INTERNATIONAL...
...other plane suddenly whisked Minister Vyacheslav Molotov from Paris to Moscow. He had taken French leave of his fellow peacemakers. Diplomats speculated: Had Molotov finally walked out on the conference? Would he come back? Or did his flight portend a major review of Russian tactics in face of the new tough U.S. stand? Whatever the reason, the conversations in the Kremlin must be among the most stimulating (and possibly among the most decisive) in history...
...Union. The decision to do so-one of the gravest ever made by American statesmen-was taken for two reasons. It was made necessary by the competition between the Soviet and Western systems which is now going on all over the world. It was precipitated by Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov's statement to the Foreign Ministers' meeting in Paris on July 14, which first disclosed Soviet purposes beyond any possibility of doubt...
...purpose of the new American policy is to deny control of Germany, and therefore of Europe, to the Soviet Union. Statesmen on public rostrums do not of course speak so plainly. Yet that was the real motive of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes's reply to Molotov in Paris-which was to demand immediate economic unification of Germany, and to announce that the United States would make a start by uniting its zone of occupation with any or all of their zones. By this statement, Byrnes in effect invited the British to join with us in the great...