Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This thing was a Soviet suggestion, made by Foreign Minister Molotov during the signing of the Austrian State...
Treaty (TIME, May 23), that the West Germans, too, could make a deal with the Kremlin. Molotov offered German unity and independence-boons which any German Chancellor would find hard to turn down. But the Soviet offer had its price tag: neutrality, and withdrawal from the Atlantic Alliance. Konrad Adenauer believes with all his strength that this would be the death knell of a free Germany...
...Communists had good reason to change their foreign policy. It was not winning. For all his cleverness, Molotov has failed to fragment NATO, has seen France's and Italy's Communists losing strength, has lost his desperate bid to keep a powerful West Germany out of the Atlantic Alliance. Moscow now seems engaged in its own agonizing reappraisal...
...Neutral Belt." The new Russian talk is of a vast "neutral belt" extending from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. The idea is that it would serve as a buffer zone between NATO and the Soviet empire. The frontiers of the neutral zone Molotov has not defined, but his clear intention is that it should include the whole of Germany, thus breaching the NATO front...
...earnest request the Big Four agreed to eliminate a war-guilt clause written into the treaty. Then, after the signing, Figl led the four foreign ministers onto the balcony of Belvedere Palace. A cheering crowd went wild when the Austrian waved a copy of the treaty over his head. Molotov, Dulles, Macmillan and Pinay clasped hands together and solemnly held them aloft. That gesture, too, brought down the house...