Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house, once the residence of the Duke of Sutherland, into tiptop shape. Carpets were laid, a bar installed, and a brand-new international round table built-a plywood ring, 14 feet in diameter, set on brown varnished legs. Separate chambers were provided for each of the foreign ministers. Mr. Molotov had the most elegant: a paneled room with towering mirrors and gilt scrollwork which was once the Duchess of Sutherland's boudoir...
Neophyte? By last week South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes had been Secretary of State just two months. There were some who still felt a little anxious about the U.S. being represented-and among all those experienced foreigners-by such a comparative neophyte. (Actually, only Molotov has had more experience; the Messrs. Bevin, Bidault and Wrang Shi-chieh are almost equally new to their tasks.) Although he had guided foreign policy bills through the Senate for F.D.R., Jimmy Byrnes's political life had largely been spent on domestic affairs. He had gone to Europe a dozen or so times...
Treaty of Friendship. While Chiang grappled with "open rebellion," his brother-in-law, Premier T. V. Soong, hurried from the Kremlin to the White House. On & off since early July, he had been talking in Moscow with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. In his pocket Premier Soong carried a signed treaty of friendship and alliance between Russia and China...
Stalin and Molotov had first demanded that China recognize the "independence" of Russian-dominated Outer Mongolia, which China claims. China must also allow certain provinces of Inner Mongolia to unite with Outer Mongolia. (On this point Stalin was adamant.) Manchuria must have a "very liberal autonomy"; China must acknowledge Russian interests in the province and settle Russian claims to the strategic Chinese Eastern and South Manchurian railways. The Russians suggested "considerable autonomy" for Sinkiang, with "rectification" of its frontiers in favor of neighboring Soviet Asia...
Stalin and Molotov argued that the Chinese Communists were a Chinese internal affair and that Russia could not be responsible for Yenan. But they would "use their influence" to help avert civil war. Stalin and Molotov believed that Chiang's retirement would help to pacify China...