Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private conferences with key Senators and Representatives. Didn't the mere invitation to Peking give Red China a new status among nations, and wasn't that a step toward de facto recognition? Not necessarily, said the State Department, calling attention to the fact that Dulles actually got Molotov to sign a clause in the communique saying that the invitation to China did not imply recognition. Moreover, China is going to Geneva not as a sponsoring power but as a government invited to discuss only two specific issues. Another question: Wasn't it a mistake to broaden...
Dulles' bedrock argument was that if the U.S. wants to preserve its diplomatic gains in Europe, there is no way out of a subsequent conference on Asia. Molotov's aim at Berlin was to split off France from the Big Three; France's Foreign Minister Bidault was under instructions from his government to work for negotiations with Peking. It is far better-the Dulles argument continued-to have joint negotiations than to split the Big Three and have France negotiating with the Communists...
...matters European, the final week of the conference gave Russia's Molotov a dialectical drubbing that he would not soon forget. France's nimble Georges Bidault, whom Molotov tried hardest to woo, tore into Russia's plan for an "us Europeans" pact that would shove the U.S. out of Europe, and leave all of Russia in. Snapped Bidault: "Lake Baikal and Vladivostok are no more European than the Mississippi and Chicago...
Last week in Berlin, Molotov entertained a select group of top East German Communists. The scraps of his speech which leaked out to a TIME correspond ent are revealing. "The focus of Soviet policy is in Asia," Molotov said. "The agenda of this conference has been decided with the concurrence of our Chinese ally . . . The united front of the Western Powers will fail first in Asia . . . The real danger to peace is in the Far East...
...every opportunity, Molotov pressed for recognition of the Red China regime. At the four "restricted" sessions with the West which were held to discuss Molotov's proposed five-power meeting including Communist China, he stubbornly demanded a full place for Red China as an equal partner. The West refused. Even France's Bidault, under heavy pressure for negotiations that might halt the wasting Indo-Chinese war, stood sturdily with his Western colleagues in demanding that any conference should be confined to specific issues. The West's proposal was for a Big Four meeting on Korea first...