Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...withstand Russia's inroads. Roosevelt therefore reasoned that his only recourse was an attempt to build at least a temporary bridge of understanding between China and Russia, and hope that political or other conflict could be postponed during China's recovery. Soong's agreement with Molotov and Stalin reduced the principle-and the hope-to writing...
...Thank You, Mr. Molotov." Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was somewhat nervous when correspondents entered a room paneled in Karelian birch. He held a papirossa (cigaret) near its lighted end, and the smoke curled about him as he read an announcement...
...reading, Molotov smiled shyly and peered at the correspondents. The smile seemed to say: "Well, gentlemen?" A correspondent said: "Thank you, Mr. Molotov. Thank you very much." The newsmen then filed their stories and returned to the dreary Hotel Metropole, where the luggage of Jap diplomats and newsmen had already been piled on the stairs. It was 9 p.m. in Moscow, three hours before the beginning of Russia's second war with Japan...
...Chinese Embassy, another batch of luggage had just been moved in. A U.S. Army plane had brought Chungking's Prime Minister T. V. Soong and his new Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh to Moscow for a second series of talks with Molotov and Stalin. Better than anyone else, the Chinese visitors and their Russian hosts understood the full importance and impact of the Soviet declaration...
...mission another visitor suddenly arrived from the East: Marshal Kharloin Choibalsan, Premier of the Mongolian People's Republic (Outer Mongolia), the vast, semiarid, herd-rich heartland of Central Asia. Like T. V., Marshal Choibalsan deplaned at the central airport. Like T. V., he was greeted by Molotov, a guard of honor and national music. Like T. V., he conferred with Stalin...