Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Foreign Ministers' deadlock on Trieste, Viacheslav Molotov gave a party for 600 at the palatial Soviet Embassy with a very lush, very Russian buffet. After the deadlock on the Italian colonies, Ernest Bevin did the honors for 800 at the even more palatial British Embassy, with a much more austere buffet. Cinderella-like, Bidault, Byrnes and Molotov left on the stroke of midnight; no sooner had they gone than Bevin cracked his party's glaze of tension by foxtrotting with Lady Diana Duff Cooper...
...June 15, with an acknowledgment that the Big Four had failed to agree. He sat back, winked at Arthur Vandenberg, awaited reactions. For five long minutes-"it seemed like 30," said one witness-nobody spoke. Then Bidault said quietly that this seemed like a good idea. Bevin nodded thoughtfully.* Molotov whispered into the ear of Interpreter Vladimir Pavlov, who announced that Russia would like to think it over...
That evening Byrnes entertained at the small, stolid U.S. Embassy. A mere 300 guests crowded in. Molotov and Byrnes went into the garden for a breath of air and a bit of diplomatic shop talk. "The Soviets," said Byrnes with a sweeping gesture, "have a much better building. The British have a better building. [We] have to get along with this." Molotov nodded in sympathy...
...country," Byrnes continued, "the State Department gets the least funds of any government. We send these boys out into the world and we can't pay them decent salaries. I am introducing a bill in Congress now to improve that situation." Politely Molotov protested that it was a very fine building. "But," he added, "I understand. Such things are difficult...
Communist and Christian diplomats are no respecters of each other's holy days. At the U.N. meeting in The Bronx last month, Soviet Delegate Gromyko proposed that the Security Council meet on Good Friday, was voted down. In Paris last week Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov proposed that the peace conference adjourn for May 1, high point in the Red devotional year. His (Communistically) impious colleagues overruled...