Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words, spoken by a high U.S. official in the hopeful, innocent spring of 1945. His was a view of U.S.Russian relations then widely current; it died hard as international cooperation deteriorated through a year of deadlock and turgid compromise. But by the strained and troubled summer of 1946, when Molotov at the Paris Peace Conference again held the center of the stage, the world was learning to think of him not in terms of personal caprice or ambition. Now it knew him as the tough and devoted servant of the toughest political reality on earth. Soviet foreign policy...
...Groove. Molotov was only one of the 14-man Politburo (see chart) which made that policy, and every decision of the 14 could be changed or reversed by one man, Stalin. But in the field of foreign affairs Molotov was the chief executor of the Politburo's will. Last week a diplomat who has spent more than a decade in close study of the Russians called Molotov "perhaps the best executor of policy in the world...
...climax of the Conference's first fortnight came in a plenary session the day after Molotov had lost in the Rules Committee (actually the same people who make up the Conference) his two-day fight to tie the committee up with a rule requiring a two-thirds vote. France's Georges Bidault, first chairman of the Conference, opened the plenary session: "We are now called upon to vote on our rules of procedure, adopted yesterday by a competent committee." Then he blandly continued: "If there are no observations, will those delegates in favor of the adoption of these...
...Molotov's No. 2 man, cynical, subtle Andrei Vishinsky, looked around worriedly for his boss. Molotov, who is rarely late for a meeting, was not in the room.* The British delegation and some others raised their voting hands; but U.S. delegate Jimmy Byrnes apparently assumed that no vote would be taken until Molotov made another speech. Byrnes and most of the other delegates did not vote. Bidault repeated his question...
Enter the Head Man. There was a stir in the back of the hall and Molotov bustled in with his brisk, bobbing swagger. His face was pink with anxiety and his tie (for once) was askew. He snapped his finger to attract the chair's attention, and Bidault wearily said: "The Soviet delegation has an observation to make." A reporter muttered: "Hold your hats, boys, here we go again...