Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been released from prison last September because of his increasing mental deterioration. (His followers do not seem to notice that he is mad.) When police set out to arrest him at his apartment in downtown San Juan last week, they were greeted by a blast of bullets and homemade Molotov cocktails that splattered on the cobblestone street. The police drew back, began a two-hour gun battle. Their second approach was spearheaded by several well-aimed teargas bombs...
...meeting of the parliamentary Labor Party last week, he proposed a resolution declaring Labor's support−at last−of German inclusion in Western defense. Up jumped young (37) Harold Wilson, Nye Bevan's right-hand man. The West had been no more conciliatory than Molotov at Berlin, he argued. He proposed an amendment postponing the questions of German rearmament at least until after the Geneva meeting in April...
Fear of Freedom." The width of the chasm between East and West on such matters as free elections in Germany and Austria could be measured by two remarks. One was Molotov's aside to An thony Eden: "What matters is not elections, but what kind of government comes out of the elections. We could not toler ate a government that would be hostile to us . . ." The other was John Foster Dulles': "We were willing to place trust in the German and Austrian peoples. The Soviet Union was not . . . The Atlantic Charter to which we all subscribed called...
...Geneva Conference was most of all a victory for France. By agreeing to sit down with the representatives of Red China, John Foster Dulles was deferring not to Molotov but to Georges Bidault, whose performance at Berlin had earned him U.S. gratitude. Time and again, the little Frenchman had risked his political neck by rejecting Soviet blandishments (e.g., that France and Russia could "solve" the German problem between them) in defiance of opinion back home. And when Molotov had tried to speak over Bidault's head to the French, Bidault sharply replied: "I would remind Monsieur Molotov that...
...Austrians still endorsed their Chancellor's final rejection of Molotov's Berlin proposals. Wrote the Socialist Arbeiter: "Molotov suggests that Russian troops should no longer form an army of occupation. Would that mean we could . . . prosecute violators of Austrian women if, as usual, they took refuge in Russian barracks...