Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 10, in a speech to the Council of Foreign Ministers, Molotov enunciated a new point of departure in Russian foreign policy: an abandonment of the French in their demand for control of the Ruhr and the Saar Basin, and opposition to the dismemberment of Germany unless "the German people express their wish to transform Germany into a federal state." The day after this speech, every newspaper in the French capital blossomed forth with a violent attack on the Soviet, including the organs of the Socialist party and the party of Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos. With this...
...treachery and rottenness of the Kuomintang were among the most notable jobs of newspaper reporting of the past year, has assailed the Russians from all sides, cultural, political, and moral. If Lippmann is not as liberal as Atkinson, at least he is as fair-mindeed, and his interpretation of Molotov's speech constitutes the most damaging attack yet sustained by the Soviet. His thesis is that Molotov, the man who signed the pact of friendship with Germany seven years ago next month, is attempting to isolate the Western powers from Germany by inveighing against dismemberment of the Reieh...
Right Bank. But at the same time, Molotov demanded ten billion dollars' worth of reparations (to be taken, contrary to previous agreement, partly out of current German production) and declared that an actual peace treaty should not be granted until the Germans had established a satisfactorily democratic government. Byrnes countered that Germany would have to know the kind of peace she would be up against before she could develop such a government. He suggested, in effect, that the economic reconstruction and the centralized government called for in Molotov's plan be started immediately by 1) lifting of zonal...
Some Germans wondered why Molotov would not let them have an advance on the wonderful future he had promised. Said one Berlin office worker: "If Molotov is really interested in Germany, I don't understand his refusal to drop zonal frontiers." But most of the press on the right (German) bank of the Rhine completely ignored this purposeful Molotov paradox and played up Russia as Germany's best friend. Typical sample: the Liberal Democratic Party's Der Morgen headlined: "What Molotov demands for Germany" as contrasted with what the Western powers "demand from Germany." Said a German...
...Cabinet, the Reds supported President-Premier Bidault's stand opposing the Molotov plan. But as good Communists, they knew that Stalin was still Stalin and Molotov his prophet. Its faith unshaken, but its vital gift for rationalization badly disrupted, Communist Humanite babbled: ". . . no insoluble divergence. Subsequent discussions will explain these questions more clearly." An emergency Communist line was appearing, to the effect that Russia was merely trying to keep perfidious Albion's claws off the Ruhr. French Communists would have to take comfort from the thought that their present distress was only a tactical interlude in Communism...