Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Team. At the table, Molotov, when confronted with a coordinated opposition, proved surprisingly pliant on procedure-though not on program. Another surprise was to see the Western Big Three, who often make headlines by their differences, functioning as smoothly as a basketball team. They were prepared, they were assured, and they refused to be diverted or divided. Much of this new drive came from John Foster Dulles...
Because the recent soviet proposals are so obviously ineffectual, they can only be regarded as propaganda devices. So far in the Berlin talks, Mr. Molotov has produced two diplomatic victories to wave before the Russian people. He has offered the West wholly unfeasible plans for atomic control and the unification of Germany and has accomplished what has long been a goal of Russian diplomacy: to make the West appear as opponents of peace. If anything constructive is to come from the Berlin talks, the West must insist that the conference confine its efforts to the important questions of Germany...
...prospects were like the setting-somber. Dulles, Eden and Bidault went to see whether Russia was ready to live more peaceably and honestly with the democratic world. But they were privately afraid that Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov had come to make not peace but more mischief...
Britain's Anthony Eden calmly seconded Bidault's words. Then Vyacheslav Molotov took the floor. He started off with the discouraging demand that the Foreign Ministers first discuss an invitation to a conference to include Red China. While Eden made temples with his hands and Bidault toyed with his left ear, Molotov let loose a quiverful of barbs at the U.S. U.S. bases abroad have been built to menace the U.S.S.R., said he, but the plan is "doomed to inevitable failure"; the U.S. has committed "gross violations" of the Korean truce agreement...
Dulles, asking for time to compose his answer to Molotov's attack, passed his turn to speak until next day. "The problem now," said he, "is to get the conference back on the track of its main purpose, Germany and Austria." "A little bit disappointing," said the British. On that unpromising note, Berlin's first unpromising day ended...