Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Told U.S. Ambassador C. Douglas Dillon that he regarded Molotov's new note on European problems as a mere trick, and would treat it accordingly...
...news out of Britain this week is that Winston Churchill has given up his long hopes of a "parley at the summit" with Malenkov soon. His most influential Cabinet advisers talked him out of it-with an unexpected assist from, of all people, Vyacheslav Molotov...
Halfway House. Churchill was insistent, and the Cabinet finally gave grudging assent to Churchill's meeting Malenkov at some halfway house such as Switzerland, Sweden or Germany. The Russians, secretly sounded out at Geneva, seemed interested. Within a few days the answer came back from Molotov. Of course, Malenkov was willing to meet Churchill-but he would meet him only in Russia...
...State Bedell Smith added his voice to those that were determined to keep Britain's First Minister out of Russia. U.S. intelligence believes that Malenkov is not really head man in post-Stalin Russia, he told Churchill, but shares power almost equally with Party Secretary Khrushchev and Molotov. Therefore, talking with Malenkov alone might well be a waste of time...
Moment of Defeat. The decisive argument was provided fortnight ago by the Russians themselves. Molotov dispatched a note asking for a new conference after Geneva on European security (TIME, Aug. 2). It was a clumsy and obvious piece of propaganda. In the Cabinet. Salisbury and Eden pointed out incisively that it added nothing to the very same suggestion the Russians made (and the West rejected) six months ago in Berlin. If that is all the Kremlin is ready to put forward, there was no point in a Churchill-Malenkov talk...