Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kids Have Grown Up." The sharp white teeth began to show when Molotov reached the clause banning "any coalition or alliance" whose purpose would "contradict" the purpose of the treaty. Molotov made clear that NATO and EDC both came under this heading. As Molotov neared the end of his proposals, the conference room was deadly quiet. Molotov, reading slowly and deliberately, came to Paragraph 9 and bared the sharpest tooth of all: the U.S. and Communist China would be invited to GETO "as observers." At the phrase, an involuntary, appreciative "ha" burst from somebody in the U.S. delegation, then swept...
...Russians were dumfounded. Molotov finally managed a sickly smile. Shaken, he finished out his proposal. But the air of smug satisfaction was gone...
...trick which has changed. But the kids have grown up." The West had indeed grown up, and showed a surprising unity in defense. But the Russians have only aged rather than grown with the times. With practiced skill, the West's Foreign Ministers took up Molotov's GETO. It was clearly a proposal to push the U.S. and Britain out of Europe and lock the European countries up with an aggressive Russia...
Secretary Dulles made no attempt to argue the U.S.'s right to remain in Europe; he tactfully left that to his European partners. Nor did he enter an objection to the treaty, to which, under Molotov's plan, the U.S. would not be a partner. But he did point out that the U.S. was in Europe as more than an "observer." Twice, he pointed out, the U.S. had sent troops to Europe "at the urgent appeal and desire of threatened people . . . Now, for the third time in this century, we have sent forces back to Europe, and again...
...hope was soon dashed. With a practiced hand, Molotov made the manageable unmanageable. His new conditions: occupying troops must remain in Austria until