Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Giap's buildup. His 37-mm. antiaircraft guns were effectively harassing the French supply airlift to Dienbienphu, and his guerrillas were raiding French supply routes and depots near Hanoi. But Giap was able to move reinforcements and ammunition to his 40,000-man striking force in 200 new Molotov trucks down two open roads from Red China. The French could do almost nothing to stop him: they needed their very few combat planes for Dienbienphu itself...
...drums go bang and the cymbals clang And the top brass blaze away, McCarthy plays the big baboon And Stevens jades away. The country's in hysterics, Such tunes were never heard. Molotov sits in the grandstand And applauds the discordant play...
Hagridden by fear of Germany, influenced by Molotov's propaganda bluff that EDC "cannot fail to lead to World War III," more and more Frenchmen are attracted by the notion of a global package deal: a cease-fire in Indo-China for rejection of EDC. Jacques Soustelle, a power in the Gaullist party, said last week: "If France should obtain a cessation of hostilities and, at the same time, reject EDC, she would gain at both tables...
...Four conference in Berlin, Russia's Molotov talked grandly of free elections for Germany. "We would take precautions," he said, that no genuinely democratic organizations are pushed back and robbed of ... active participation ... It goes without saying that while conducting . . . elections there must be absolute freedom for all democratic organizations...
Last week the East German Communists provided a nice example of what Molotov was really talking about. Workers of the East German farm and forestry union scheduled an election of officials...