Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anglo-Soviet-Iranian Treaty of Jan. 29, 1942 (to whose aims the U.S. later gave its blessing) pledged Britain and Russia to quit the country by March 2, 1946. When Britain and the U.S. last year sought to predate the deadline, Russian Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov acidly observed: "The Soviet Government is. guided strictly by the time limit established in the" 1942 treaty...
...also been busy in international politics. His relations with the British, if not cordial, were polite; the British had to think of their huge investment in Argentina. He had flirted with the Russians, and at the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov reportedly toyed with a Perón offer to enter diplomatic and trade negotiations, was persuaded that an attack on fascist Argentina was better international politics...
Disquieting Question. But last year he had cause to ask himself a disquieting question: Did the Russians really value him? His most urgent request that Molotov be sent to the San Francisco conference was gently ignored-it was Harry Hopkins, weak and ailing after a trying journey, who talked Premier Stalin into sending Molotov. And Harriman sensed something even more disturbing-the gradual crumbling of the sense of national partnership which had once seemed so real...
...Enemy, Capitalism. Candidate Lazar M. Kaganovich asserted flatly: "We are still within the capitalist encirclement." Candidate Viacheslav Molotov warned: Russia is watchful of "possible hotbeds . . . intrigues against international security. . . . Everything must be done to make the Red Army as good as the armies of other countries...
...from the ceiling to the floor. Behind the table stood a large portrait of Stalin, edged in red. There was no soft music, no suave couturiers. The mannequins (rather plump) sported no fancy make-up or nifty hairdos. Commissars, scholars, artists faced the circular platform. Paulina Semionovna Zhemchuzhina (Madame Molotov), head of the Soviet Cosmetics Trust, was there, chatting brightly with Textiles Vice Commissar Dora Moissevna Khazan. In Moscow's House of Fashions, tailors and dressmakers of the state were displaying what the well-dressed tovarish should wear...