Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yesterday's attack on the United States by Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, in which the U.S. was accused of threatening Communist China with war, and in which Molotov hinted the Soviet Union may have surpassed the U.S. in atomic weapons development, was not taken too alarmingly by Shulman...
Next Eden sent British Ambassador Sir William Hayter to the Kremlin to see Molotov. Hayter asked Molotov to "urge the Chinese People's government most strongly that they will accept the invitation" to go before the U.N. Security Council, "and in the meantime" asked that the Soviet government "use its best offices and fullest facilities to urge restraint on the Chinese...to avoid any incident which might lead to general hostilities." After a routine tirade charging that the real cause of trouble was "the gross interference of the U.S. in the internal affairs of China," Molotov said he would...
...weeks before the December 1953 execution of Lavrenty Beria, Stalin's fellow Georgian who became boss of the Soviet secret police. Foreign Minister Molotov gave a big party at the old Spiri-donovka Palace in Moscow. Except for Malenkov, Khrushchev and Voroshilov, all the Soviet leaders were there, rubbing shoulders with several hundred foreign diplomats and newsmen. In a corner of the ornate reception room, Politburocrats matched toasts with the ambassadors of Britain, France, Red China and the U.S., and for once vodka seemed to relax the occupationally tight-mouthed...
Refusing to be hushed by Molotov, Kaganovich went on roaring until Molotov brought over Marshal Zhukov. Looking grim, Zhukov recalled a toast to "Justice" made earlier by U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen. He said he wanted to support that toast...
...foreign ministers of the Big Four had conferred. Much of the world was being lulled by new and gentle tones from Moscow. Did Malenkov's Russia really want peace? In trying to get an answer that all the world would understand, Secretary of State Dulles at Berlin pressed Molotov with greater skill and force than any U.S. diplomat had ever shown in dealing with the Communists. With one sharp stroke after another, he stripped the Communists naked of the pretense that they really wanted peace at anything less than their own outrageous price. If millions remained deluded by the "soft...