Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Serenely ensconced in a luxurious, three-room suite at the super-ritzy Hotel Moscow, he talked amiably to U.S. correspondents. He had had several long talks with Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky, Soviet Information Chief, and had called on Foreign Minister Molotov. Purred Browder: "I have been received like an old and trusted friend of the Soviet Union...
...round the same old course became too painfully familiar last week, he urged a recess to June 15. His equally battered colleagues agreed. Next day, as the adjournment meeting droned to a close, Byrnes made another move. "Gentlemen," he said, "I propose we go to the bar." Replied Viacheslav Molotov: "It will be the only proposal of the conference which was immediately and unanimously adopted...
...central Europe, where the two worlds divided, the Ministers made no progress at all. Molotov refused to put Austria on the agenda, even for June 15. The far more important question of Germany's future was left in midair. Russia also vetoed a Byrnes move for a "general Allied conference" on Germany next November...
...swore they would sign no treaty that did not give them this key port at the head of the Adriatic. Byrnes and Bevin switched their proposed boundaries in this area to a line (suggested by France) which gave Yugoslavia roughly 2,000 sq. miles but left Trieste to Italy. Molotov did not budge an inch from his line, which would put 500,000 Italians in Yugoslavia...
Despite such disputes, the Ministers ended the week more cheerfully than they began-at a ball with handsome, young King Sianouk of Cambodia, while Parisians danced in the streets outside. Molotov's new mildness might be intended to help Europe's Communists after their setback in the French elections. But whatever the reason, the Four had danced through so many little difficulties in a week that they could once more tackle a really tough number: Trieste...