Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vague Exceptions. The best measure of the West's advance was the way the Communists struck back before the ink was dry on the London agreement. Cunningly, the Kremlin sent Vyacheslav Molotov to Berlin with a newly tailored model of the old maneuver for Big Four talks on Germany. This time, said Molotov, Russia would be willing to discuss-though not necessarily to agree to-"free all-German elections." This held out to the Germans hope of unity, which all ardently desire, while offering the French a fresh excuse to delay still longer their agonizing decision over Germany...
...London agreement just as they had so long fought him over EDC-because, they insisted, West Germany's rearmament in the camp of the West would kill the last hope of German unification. Just before the Socialists' offensive jumped off, Russia's Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov dropped down on East Berlin's airport and produced from his briefcase a diplomatic time bomb designed to derail the London agreement...
Forward Not a Foot. The Soviet Union, he announced, wants a new four-power conference on German reunification and is even "willing to discuss" the West's proposals for free elections. The death of EDC, explained Molotov suavely, had created "new possibilities of reconciliation." But if West Germany went ahead with rearmament, he warned, "the restoration of German unity would become impossible." The new Soviet gesture was itself evidence of how much Molotov feared the strength that West Germany would add to the West's alliance. But the Social Democrats, as Molotov had doubtless intended, happily snatched...
...junta consists of Premier Georgy Malenkov ("full of old-fashioned grace"), Nikita Khrushchev ("hail fellow well met"), Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov ("quiet, patient and reasonable"), Lazar Kaganovich ("likes his liquor"), N. A. Bulganin ("handsome and witty"), A. I. Mikoyan ("probably the sharpest and cleverest of all"). All are about the same height (5 ft. 4 in.), and all have the common secondary goal of convincing their own people and the West that the "Stalin terror" is over. But Salisbury emphasizes that the change is only on the surface; their primary goal remains the same: worldwide Communist dictatorship...
...Peking. Next day, singing their Moscow hosts' praises, the delegation took off for Peking. Franklin burbled of the "never-to-be-forgotten" sight of the Kremlin by moonlight, described Molotov as "carefree of spirit ... He left an impression upon me of being perfectly sincere," while Malenkov "cannot resist that friendly grin when someone has made a crack at the Russians or one of their particular policies." Wrote Morgan Phillips: "I am convinced-unless I know nothing of international affairs and human be havior-that the personal friendliness shown to us in the Soviet Union has been altogether genuine . . ..There...