Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet press and radio, taking its cue from Molotov, blamed "the Anglo-Saxon bloc" for the deadlock. A fortnight ago Ernest Bevin had told the House of Commons: "Have we the moral right to say to 21 nations . . . 'you must go on in a state of war because we four gentlemen can't agree?' Really, this is an intolerable situation." He hinted at separate peace treaties with the former enemies. This obviously would split Europe in two. Molotov in Moscow had already said: "An intolerable situation...
...with new. The air was soon blue with tobacco smoke. Georges Bidault, apparently putting aside for the occasion the worry of trying to form a new Cabinet, squirmed agilely through the pack in his capacity of host-he failed to notice the repressed wince as he inadvertently trod on Molotov's toe. It was Molotov who set the tone by greeting his old enemy Bevin with "Davaite govorit korotko" (let's make this one snappy!). "Very good," said Bevin...
...Molotov said "an Anglo-American bloc" was waging "an offensive against the Soviet Union." Peter Orlov, commentator for Radio Moscow, told the Russian people that "American reactionaries are trying to ... [build] up an Anglo-American military bloc . . . for a third World...
Britons and Americans knew the Russian charges were untrue; but they also sensed last week that the Byrnes-Molotov "debate" (more accurately described as a duet of denunciation) on the Paris conference had put Russia and the West further apart than ever. How serious was the cleavage...
Byrnes's denial of the bloc's existence was true, in the sense that no sane and responsible Britons and Americans planned an attack on the Soviet Union. And Molotov's charge that the bloc existed was true, in the sense that Britain and the U.S. would stand together against major new advances by the expanding U.S.S.R. Neither Washington nor London wanted to close the door to further negotiations, but both thought it was time Moscow did a larger share of the conceding...