Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris: Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife of Florida's plangent Senator. As representative of the People's Mandate Committee, Mrs. Pepper will haunt the coulisses of the Conference until she has interviewed all the leaders of the 21 delegations. First to be bagged: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who told her that he will recommend postponement of the U.N. General Assembly (now scheduled to meet on Sept. 23 in New York City) "until the end of the year." Mrs. Pepper also asked the Foreign Minister what he considered the chief stumbling block to the Peace Conference. Said Molotov: there...
...Luxembourg Palace, Zinchenko sat through the long debates beside Molotov and Vishinsky. Whenever he left the Palace, his black portfolio tucked under the arm of his London-made suit, reporters beset him with questions. All evening long, his telephone rang in his small, untidy office at the embassy in the Rue de Crenelle...
...Favorites. On days when he did not have to eat with Molotov, he often went out to lunch with correspondents (no other Soviet official could be lured into lunching away from the embassy or the official Hotel Bristol). The newsmen he saw most frequently were those who sought him out. Two of these were the U.P.'s plump Edward Beattie Jr. and the New York Herald Tribune's diplomatic correspondent, Walter Kerr...
...Jimmy Byrnes and gave Aunt Molly a precise piece of his mind: "Repeated abuse and misrepresentation . . . have been leveled against America from this floor. . . . What great power enriched itself during the war? I know of none. . . . America seeks no territory and seeks no reparations. . . . The U.S. must also repudiate [Molotov's] suggestion . . . that the economic clauses proposed by the U.S. and based upon the principle of equality and most-favored-nation treatment are part of an effort to exploit the ex-enemy countries for the selfish advantage...
Pravda hurried to Molotov's defense. Said the official organ of the Soviet Government: Byrnes is a "provincial prince" who "forgot he [was] not at a meeting in the State Department on the affairs of Panama and Honduras, where he could remove his coat and put his feet on the table...