Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berlin offered no such bait. Molotov was forced to define the Communist position in terms most repugnant to European neutralists and American wish-thinkers...
...only called for an abandonment of EDC (the European Army), but even insisted on the dismemberment of NATO and the total departure of U.S. military support from Europe-a step which French neutralists recognize as prostrating Western Europe before the Red army. On Germany and on Austria. Molotov was compelled to disclose the true Soviet position: the U.S.S.R. will yield not an inch of ground held by military occupation for the sake of European reconstruction or national independence or the hope of peace...
Wrote the Berlin Kurier: "To anyone with a feeling for national dignity, it might seem unpleasant to bargain for the Fatherland as for a carpet or a camel in the Orient. But bargaining it must be." Despite such a willing audience, Molotov failed badly in his efforts to appeal to the Germans. The West Germans-even those who thought that by bargaining away EDC they might get a reunited nation-were shocked at Molotov's bland dismissal of free elections as "parliamentary procedure...
...Eastern Germany, the response to Molotov was muffled but apparent. The Communists spared no effort. They organized special half-hour "enlightenment sessions" at every state-owned enterprise, to expound the daily Communist position...
...rally was shouted down by workers who stamped, whistled and cried: "Free elections!" The nervous Communists alerted the whole 200,000-man East German police force, and ordered the arrest of anybody who shouted for free elections as "a saboteur, warmonger and enemy of the state." At Berlin, Molotov found it necessary to warn bluntly that the Communists would not permit another June 17 uprising...