Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four months, ago, after wartime service as a lieutenant on a Canadian corvette on Atlantic convoy. Brooks Atkinson, an old censor fighter, helped polish the protest. Every member of the Association, including Anna Louise Strong, approved the unanimous protest, which was addressed and sent to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. Excerpts...
...that impatient young Tories took umbrage, growled that Winston was ignoring them as usual. Clement Attlee earnestly answered Members' questions. Ponderous Ernie Bevin recounted what was already an old story, the meeting of the Big Five Foreign Ministers. Churchill, who well knew the exasperations of a session with Molotov, conceded that Bevin had given a "clear, temperate and able statement . . . made upon the disappointing event...
...vastly different "truth" (according to the U.S.) came from Secretary of State Byrnes. In a tone as aggrieved as Molotov's, Byrnes pointed to another sentence in the Potsdam communique which allowed the Council to set up its own procedures, invite other nations into the treaty discussions. On Sept. 11 the London Council unanimously adopted a resolution permitting all five ministers to discuss the treaties, but leaving the final decisions to the Big Three. For ten days Russia did not object. Then Molotov suddenly insisted on changing the procedure, excluding France and China, and afterward rejected every offer...
Britain's Bevin had the same story. Moscow's Izvestia barked that these explanations were "not in accordance with reality," added that all who disagreed with Molotov refused "to recognize the real situation." The same old quarrels about meanings were on again...
Parable in Poznan. Important as they were to Russia and to Europe, the Balkan treaties in themselves were not enough to drive the Big Powers so far toward fission. One evident reality was that Molotov did not want to defend Russia's oppressive Balkan regimes before too big an audience; his objecting to French and Chinese participation was his way of avoiding that unpleasant task...