Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-motored plane from Chungking came down at Moscow's airport. China's Premier T. V. Soong was the first to alight. He wore a blue suit, but not his horn-rimmed spectacles. Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov greeted him. The foreign colony stood by, including U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. A guard of honor snapped to attention. A band played the national anthems of China and Russia...
...diplomatic activity which might well mark a new era in Chinese-Russian relations. Within his first four days in Moscow, China's indefatigable Premier saw Generalissimo Stalin twice - with "most gratifying" results, said well-informed sources. He conferred three times with Ambassador Harriman. He was wined & dined by Molotov. He went to a performance of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The audience claqued thunderously for his benefit...
...time, Molotov's proposal was widely misinterpreted as sheer rudeness. Even Stettinius and Eden opposed it on the wrong grounds: they simply thought that it would snarl up the whole conference procedure. Not until later did Molotov's opponents realize that in forcing him to back down-as he did-they had won the opening round in a long battle for free discussion...
Freedom of discussion was at the heart of the veto issue. The Russians wanted to interpret the veto so that one power could shut off discussion even in the Security Council. At this point Stettinius took his stand and saved the conference. He told Molotov, in a formal note, that the U.S. would sooner have no charter at all than one with this restriction. Meanwhile, Harry Hopkins in Moscow put it up to Stalin. The Russians gave...
...Gawd Bless You All!" The fight on Monday, April 30, over the admission of authoritarian Argentina was another real crisis. Molotov saw his chance and took it; the U.S., having made the Latin countries support the earlier admission of Russia's Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics, was committed to bring Argentina in, too. Although the Russians were roundly beaten on the vote, they looked as happy as a tiger that had swallowed a young parrot. They had a moral issue that they could use forever after...