Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After each had gone over what the tripartite group had decided upon, Dulles, Eden and Bidault conferred for half an hour before the day's session. The result in the first week (see below) was a unity that Molotov had yet to dent...
Dulles regards Molotov as one of the most resourceful diplomats of the 20th century, but he does not fear to tangle with him, for he is confident that the West is in a sounder position. He refused to be frustrated by procedural trivia. He yielded when opposition was time wasted. He forced the pace when the Russians sought delay. "If conferences can do nothing better than to create new conferences, and the new conferences do nothing better than to create more new conferences . . . the whole conference method will become an object of ridicule, and we with it," he warned Molotov...
Greyer, but more relaxed and amiable than when Stalin was alive, Vyacheslav Molotov gazed straight ahead through his pince-nez. He was outnumbered three to one, but as usual was demanding that the majority do business...
...sorry, old Big Four pattern, the haggling over shadows without getting to the substance, seemed to have descended on the Berlin conference. Molotov insisted on his order of business; the West wanted to cut straight to the central issue, Germany. But Dulles finished off his response with gentle surprise. "I propose that we refuse to be discouraged and get ahead with our business . . . Mr. Molotov has proposed an agenda. It is not an agenda which we would propose, but it is an agenda which we will take for the sake of getting on with our work...
Bidault and Eden quickly concurred-they had settled on the maneuver that morning. Molotov, though it showed little in his cool, confident manner, was ruffled...