Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick Shift. On the evening of July 4, 1946, V. M. Molotov had said: "Tozhe ne vozrazhayu-I, too, do not object." The other delegates thought that sentence ended ten months of wrangling over convocation of the Peace Conference. But the worst was ahead. Next day, Molotov, as one American delegate put it, "seemed to be oozing vast gobs of grey sweat." He returned with tight-lipped truculence to the Soviet position of blocking the peace. First, he insisted on excluding China from the inviting powers. Byrnes called this "a gratuitous insult" to China, but finally agreed to accept...
...Molotov's conciliatory mood was short-lived. The deadline set by Byrnes for clearing up the agenda, June 28 (it happened to be the 27th anniversary of the Versailles Treaty and the 32nd anniversary of Archduke Ferdinand's assassination at Sarajevo), had arrived. Besides Trieste, other issues remained unsolved: free navigation on the Danube, Russia's insistence on Italian reparations, the economic clauses in the Balkan treaties and, last but not least, the "German question...
...even if we do not, the conference must be held." Britain's Bevin and France's Bidault spoke up for an early conference. Gazing steadily at Molotov, Byrnes said: "It is now clear who is exercising the veto. I want to know how much longer he is going to veto the peace of the world...
...Svetlana Molotov, 18-year-old daughter of Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov, got a gold medal for "distinguished success" in her exams at Moscow's School...
Earl Browder, new U.S. representative for Soviet publishers, flew in from Moscow, like any bourgeois tripper, with presents for the Mrs.: a bottle of perfume and four Russian dolls. At the airport reporters fell on him. Had he seen Molotov? Yes. Had he seen Stalin...