Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva's Palais des Nations, Dulles never looked at Chou. But Chou's placid face seemed to hold a cobralike fascination for U.S. delegates, who watched his every move. During refreshment time, Chou moved to the buffet table for an orange juice, flanked by Russia's Molotov and Gromyko and followed by platoons of bodyguards with bulging shoulder holsters...
...Rifts. Next day Molotov rose to endorse Chou's remarks, remarking pointedly that for the first time "all the great powers" were taking part in an international conference. To the U.S.'s unconcealed chagrin, neither Britain nor France, nor any other European delegation, rose to challenge the Communists' assertion that it was a five-power conference, or to counter the onslaught on the U.S., or to support the South Korean plan...
...fact was that many of the U.S. allies preferred nationwide elections to Rhee's proposed elections for North Korea only. It scarcely mattered. At a Saturday meeting of seven nations called in an attempt to break the deadlock, Molotov vetoed any idea of U.N.-supervised elections anywhere, insisted that in any electoral commission the North Koreans (pop. 5,000,000) get equal representation with South Korea (pop. 20 million)2 points on which the West is determined not to yield...
...Office. Inside the hall, the debaters had the same feeling of unreality that afflicts delegates to a political convention; they were merely marking time until the real decisions were made in the back rooms. All week long, harried little Georges Bidault held private meetings with Russia's Molotov. The meetings were not cordial ("He hates me," says Bidault). After each meeting, the British and U.S. sought out Bidault to find what had happened, inspected him carefully for signs of collapse, like anxious friends interviewing a school_ mate after a session with the headmaster...
There have been many and varied answers, some old, some recent, some true, some wrong, some regretted. From an old U.S. China hand: "A sort of Chinese Talleyrand." From a fellow-traveling Indian diplomat: "A second Nehru!" From a onetime kingpin in the Chinese Communist movement: "A Chinese Molotov." Chiang Kai-shek is reported to have called him "a reasonable Communist." General George Marshall once spoke of him with "friendship and esteem" and thought him a man of his word...