Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Molotov boasted: "Prior to the Second World War the Soviet Union was the only socialist state in a ring of capitalist encirclement . . . Now the correlation of forces . . . has definitely changed to the advantage of socialism...
Gloomy Surprise. As they do whenever an internal emergency requires, the Kremlin's leaders thus callously abandoned a foreign policy line that had scored considerable gains. With Molotov's words, the dovecote sound of Malenkov's "coexistence" and "good life" line gave way to the anvil clank of the old Stalinesque "tough" line. The first outside reaction was gloomy surprise. The London Stock Exchange dipped at the news. Columnist Stewart Alsop concluded that the Kremlin had made up its mind that "war is probable if not inevitable." Former Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, once Ambassador...
Keeping Up Appearances. The foreign audience that Molotov was probably most interested in satisfying was in Peking. Like any foreign minister, he found it harder to reassure an ally than to fulminate against an antagonist. For the benefit of the high-riding comrades in Peking, Molotov effusively corrected himself after referring to the camp of world Communism "headed by the U.S.S.R.-more correctly said, headed by the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic." He had liberal praise for Red China's friendship and aims, denunciation for the "criminal gang of Chiang Kai-shek that was expelled...
...Norodom defended Cambodia's new freedom against a determined Viet Minh invasion; in July he instructed his delegation at Geneva to hold out for his right to seek alliance with the U.S. and to rearm. After the treaty signing was delayed for five hours, Chou En-lai and Molotov gave...
...appear, Communist editors had no trouble finding out exactly how to play the story. Over the Moscow radio came detailed instructions from the Kremlin to every editor: "Tomorrow's papers should publish on their first page the picture of the joint meeting of the Supreme Soviet with Mr. Molotov on the rostrum . . . Next should follow the Khrushchev speech. Underneath, the appointment of Comrade Bulganin...