Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right-wing Deputies, no longer able to delay the vote, sought to delay implementation of the treaties-to give Russia chance to show by her actions that German rearmament was unnecessary. Mendes moved with accustomed nimbleness. The French charge d'affaires in Moscow was instructed to talk with Molotov about the Austrian peace treaty. Then Mendes told the rightist Deputies: "If the Russians really have anything to say, they can say it to the charge...
...they attacked the French government for not having accepted the Russian proposal for an all-European security conference and promised to step up Russian military preparedness if the Paris accords are signed. Then, in Moscow's Hall of Columns, before a picked audience, including French Ambassador Louis Joxe, Molotov made a direct appeal to France to reject the Paris accords, which, he said, would be "regarded as a military menace...
...platform were Communist Bosses Malenkov and Khrushchev and Marshals Bulganin and Voroshilov. Beside Molotov. under a placard proclaiming, in French and Russian. Franco-Russian friendship, sat French Communist Poet Louis Aragon. Blustered Molotov: "We shall not be caught napping by ratification of the Paris agreements ... If need be, the Soviet Union will demonstrate its right and the righteousness of our cause. The Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic and the People's Democracies have such manpower, and enjoy such support abroad, that there is no force in the world that could arrest our progress along...
...West insisted on going through with the Paris agreements, said Molotov, "the peace-loving states of Europe must unite their forces and considerably strengthen them . . . This demands that the countries attending the present conference carry out common measures in the field of organizing their military forces and commands" against "possible aggression." On cue, Premier Otto Grotewohl said that "should militarism be revived in West Germany," his East German Republic "will find itself forced to answer by forming national armed forces...
...Pieces. The others spoke their set pieces. Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz of Poland said he viewed revived German militarism (Western, that is) with alarm, and endorsed Molotov's suggestion for a united command. Premier Viliam Siroky of Czechoslovakia said he did, too. Deputy Premiers or Foreign Ministers of Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary and Rumania said they "eagerly," "warmly," "enthusiastically" supported Comrade Molotov's proposals. That took four days...