Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James F. Byrnes was fed up too. With steady patience, the U.S. Secretary of State had listened to Foreign Minister Molotov's distortion of U.S. motives. He had watched poker-faced when Molotov (whom the British Foreign Office privately calls Aunt Molly) rudely bounced out to snub speeches he violently disapproved and with an expression of "the heart has its reasons that reason knows not of," sat them out in the corridor...
Last week Molotov bounced out again when Greece's Premier Constantin Tsaldaris addressed the Conference. The same day Molotov used the draft of the Italian peace treaty for a speech which undoubtedly pleased the Italian Communist Party (with whose Secretary, Palmiro Togliatti, Molotov had just been closeted), but pleased scarcely anybody else...
Completely ignoring the $900 million aid the U.S. has given Italy since 1943 and U.S. insistence that Russia scale down its Italian reparations demands, Molotov charged...
After the long meeting (ten hours) had been adjourned, and after McNeil's strong talk, Molotov sent his interpreter to ask McNeil: "Are you going to drink with your chess now?" "No," said McNeil, "just drink...
...when Molotov was a veteran member of Russia's Politburo, McNeil was at Glasgow University, trying to make up his mind whether he was headed for the Scottish Presbyterian ministry or for politics. (In Scotland, up to a point, training for either is training for both.) His father, a shipwright, died that year, and his firm gave McNeil's mother a pension of ?26 a year ($125). "That," says McNeil, "was when I turned to Socialism...