Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of the Soviet delegation to the U.N., commands a dozen voices, from the sly wheedle to the choleric roar, a dozen expressions, from the impish grin to the basilisk glare. For all his arrogance, he is a much more entertaining performer than Russia's wooden men-Molotov, Malik, Gromyko. He is also a remarkable survivor of 37 years of power struggle in the Kremlin. A onetime Menshevik, he came through unscathed when the Bolsheviks put the Mensheviks out of business in 1921. He not only rode out the great purges of the '30s but was the flamboyant...
Both the South Koreans and the North Koreans have claimed this distinction, and the decision will be completely in Molotov's hands...
...yesterday's opening session, the delegates organized their procedure in 31 minutes. Today's meeting, however, promises to provide more activity. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov will be chairman, and he will choose the conference's first speaker...
...Usual Aim. Like so many of the ostensibly clumsy swipes which Vyacheslav Molotov makes with his diplomatic hammer & sickle, this one had a method, and a danger to it. In a week when many of the U.S.'s allies seemed politically mesmerized by the mushrooming cloud of the thermonuclear bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Molotov adroitly played on man's justified concern over the power he now holds in his arsenals: "There can be no doubt that the employment of atomic and hydrogen weapons in a war . . . would mean the wholesale annihilation of civilians and the destruction...
...Molotov also played on wavering France's fears over the proposed European Army: "The main role," said Molotov, "is assigned to the armed forces of West Germany, with Nazi generals at the head...