Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first and most significant crisis of the San Francisco conference appeared the second day. It arose in the steering committee, when Anthony Eden moved that Ed Stettinius be made permanent chairman of the conference. Molotov objected: he said that a presidium of the four sponsoring powers should rotate among themselves the chairmanships of the plenary sessions and of the most important committees...
...gold Bolshoi Theater. On the stage, where the academicians sat, a white, heroic-sized bust of Lenin stood on a pedestal underneath a mammoth poster portrait of Stalin. President Komarov's welcoming address (read for him because he was ailing) proposed greetings to Stalin, Molotov, Kalinin, the Red Army, the Red Navy. The conferees enthusiastically sent them...
...London exiles (but no member of the unreconstructible exiled Government); Warsaw President Boleslaw Bierut and three members of his Government; five non-Government Poles from Poland. With the Russians, these men would try to find agreement among themselves, then submit the result to the Big Three's troubleshooters (Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman, British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr). If all went well, the whole thing would be cleaned up before the next Big Three meeting (see above...
Cymbals & Silence. When Bierut and his Warsaw colleagues (Osubka-Morawski, Kowalski and Gomulka) arrived at Moscow's airport, they were greeted by Foreign Commissar Molotov, Vice Commissar Vyshinsky, Politburo brass hats and a vast blare of tubas, trumpets, cymbals and drums...
...deterioration of Sino-Russian relations. No longer could it convincingly be charged that, as Acting. Premier, T. V. Soong was merely a figurehead in the Chungking Government. As Premier, his rank would enable him to negotiate on an equal footing with Prime Minister Winston Churchill or Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov (Soong is also China's Foreign Minister...