Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second week, the Big Four Foreign Ministers' Conference was caught in the ice floes of deadlock over Germany. Molotov had plainly shown that he was no more willing than Stalin had been to break the jam over divided Germany's future. The Westerners had to keep chipping away anyhow: they had come to Berlin either to 1) find agreement, or 2) show all the world that Moscow's policy is still not peace but pretense...
...there had been any hope that Molotov would prove conciliatory, it ended when the Russian presented Moscow's version of the way to reunite Germany...
Dulles, casting aside the careful sarcasm and barbed debating points he had been tossing through the week at Molotov, made a plea for the unity and trust that once joined Russia and the West in war against aggression. He spoke of Germany's right to live again and the world's right to assurances that she will live peacefully...
Familiar Sound. This week the conference was transferred from the U.S. to the Soviet sector of Berlin. In the first session in the giant, new Soviet embassy, Molotov submitted his own plan for Germany. It had a familiar sound. He suggested that the four powers sign a peace treaty with a united Germany-but made no mention of guaranteeing free elections first. Essentially his proposal was a rehash of what the Russians proposed in 1952. No prior commitments (such as EDC) would be permitted the new government, its arms would be limited to "tasks of a purely internal character...
Apologizing at the end for the length of his speech, Molotov cracked, "I am afraid that, as we say in Moscow, I have overfulfilled my plan...