Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western ministers flatly rejected Molotov's proposal. Their objections were many. The Russian plan would set up all Germany for an ultimate Communist coup. Even those Frenchmen who oppose German rearmament inside a European Army (EDC) were alarmed at German "national armed forces" as an alternative. It looked dangerously like the Reichswehr, which Hitler had built into the Wehrmacht. As for Molotov's proposal that each occupying nation withdraw all its troops from Germany, Bidault commented wryly: "I can well see the advantages for the Soviet Union in withdrawing part of its troops a few dozen kilometers...
Quotes for Salt. Faced with Molotov's icy rigidity, the Western ministers replied with polite but telling effect. To Molotov's monotonous charges that the West is conspiring to start a new world war, John Foster Dulles pointed...
...sometimes been wrong . . . I recall that Mr. Molotov was wrong in October 1939, when he condemned France and Britain as being aggressors and praised Hitlerite Germany as being the peace-seeking country." Dulles threw in a batch of Molotov's own 1939 quotes to make the wound saltier. Example: "It is not only senseless but criminal to wage such a war-a war for the destruction of Hitlerism camouflaged as 'a fight for democracy...
...this uncomfortable reminder of an episode no longer discussed in polite Communist society, Molotov energetically took notes. He did not even try to reply until next...
Bogus Legalism. Molotov scored one diplomatic finesse during the week. Again and again, he raised a bogus legalism: under the European Army treaty, he insisted, a unified Germany would be forced to join the Western alliance and be subject to it for 50 years. Thus goaded, the Western Foreign Ministers were lured into emphasizing and repeating that Germany, once united, would be free to accept or reject Western commitments already made by West Germany. "A reunited Germany . . . cannot be bound by the obligations of its predecessors," Eden emphasized. Inevitably, EDC opponents in France could make much of that admission...