Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Molotov finally offered a compromise-putting Trieste under dual Italo-Yugoslav sovereignty. But growing clashes between Italians and Slovenes in the city already showed how hopeless such a plan would be. When Byrnes turned it down, Molotov snapped: "If you mean that no compromise is possible, why not say so?" Byrnes shot back: "Because it isn't true. I have accepted several compromises. . . . So far as I can see you have retreated nowhere...
...Bases. Molotov began to bend. He agreed with the U.S.-British view that only trifling changes should be made in the Austrian-Italian border. As a result, the Big Four turned down Vienna's demand for the controversial southern Tyrol, in spite of monster demonstrations at Innsbruck...
...Molotov then announced that he agreed that France be given Tenda and Briga- two small Italian districts near the French border. Always quick to seize an opening, Byrnes asked: Why not talk now about the Dodecanese? The Russian interpreter was still translating this when Molotov agreed that the archipelago (which guards the Western entrance of the Dardanelles) should be returned, demilitarized, to Greece. The amazed silence that fell on the conference room was broken by Byrnes, who said dryly: "It is taking me a moment to catch my breath...
...pressed into Chez Paquin, where a fashion show and ballet celebrated a fateful meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. The night seemed long to newsmen hanging around Suite 116 at the Hotel Meurice, watching the champagne buckets go by toward the room where Secretary Byrnes was entertaining Minister Molotov. In time the buckets came out empty-but no news came with them. Two U.S. Army privates guarded Byrnes's door, and just to be sure, Molotov had brought his own guard-a Red Army lieutenant general, epaulets and all, who paced up & down in front of the G.I.s...
...point: the city would not be handed over to Tito. But at the meetings Byrnes showed great flexibility on details ; although opposed in general to internationalized cities (too much like Danzig), he was even willing to see Trieste put under international control for five or ten years. Molotov waited quietly for word from his Vozhd (boss) in Moscow...