Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Moscow's Pravda insisted angrily that no issues between the great powers were insoluble, distrust and tension grew. Molotov snapped to the Council of Foreign Ministers: "You would think I was accused and on trial...
Biggest social event was Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's dreary cocktail party in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. The most conspicuous guests were the broad-shouldered, anonymous young men clustered around Foreign Commissar Molotov. Their hip pockets bulged. Said a Briton: "Damme! Pistols in the House of Lords. Incredible...
Australia's hulking, tireless Herbert Vere Evatt led the small and middle nations' fight, as he had at San Francisco. When the Italian treaty came before the Council of Five (for the U.S., Byrnes; for Britain, Bevin; for Russia, Molotov; for France, Bidault; for China, Wang Shih-chieh), Evatt insisted that all the nations that had fought Italy have a say. Russia surprisingly agreed that invitations to speak before the Council be granted to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Russia's friends, Yugoslavia and Poland and the Soviet Republics of the Ukraine and White...
...reputations. Inside the Department he is known and admired for his thorough knowledge of Department procedure. Many on the outside consider him a man who married wealth (Armour) and adopted arch-conservative views. Jimmy Byrnes has found his departmental knowledge invaluable. (At a Potsdam session one day, Molotov and Eden suddenly began talking about Varkiza, the Greek village where the armistice in the civil war was signed. Lost in a fog, Jimmy Byrnes turned to Jimmy Dunn and blurted: "What the hell is Varkiza?" Jimmy Dunn was able to tell...
Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was at the airport to meet Groza and his entourage of Ministers. Later Generalissimo Stalin entertained him at a "cordial, friendly" dinner at the Kremlin...