Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French diplomat. "But they won't want it to end." He was undoubtedly right: the longer the Russians can keep the Foreign Ministers in session in Berlin, the longer France would delay getting down to voting on the European Army. But John Foster Dulles is anxious to get Molotov to the table, to see whether anything is on his mind, so Washington talked Paris and London into conceding...
Last week in Moscow, Molotov told the French ambassador that the Kremlin's priority list for Berlin is: 1) a Big Five conference, to include Red China; 2) European security, including the German question; and 3) "world disarmament." It sounded like the same old thing, all wrapping and no meat...
...growing nervousness was detectable in the Western chancelleries. Molotov could probably not be held to a discussion only of Germany and Austria. He might convincingly talk of total atomic disarmament-and a ban on atomic weapons, without any other kind of disarmament, would, as SHAPE Commander Alfred M. Gruenther acknowledged this week, be to Russia's advantage. Molotov might suggest a truce in Indo-China, and thereupon demand that Red China be invited to Berlin. Whatever the details, the Communists made no secret of their main ambition at Berlin: to defeat the West's plan for a European...
...British asked for an advance huddle in Berlin of Dulles, Eden and Bidault a couple of days before the formal talks with Molotov begin...
...They soon learned why escape had been so easy: travel through the jungle was impossible, partly because of tigers. The fleeing men moved only by night, and stuck to the main colonial route leading to Hanoi. It was jammed by tens of thousands of Communist coolies and Russian-made Molotov trucks, and they escaped notice in the turbulent swarm. On the third night, however, they ran up against a check point where they could not give the password, and the jig was up. Workers Like Ants. Punishment was light-their shoes were confiscated for two days, during which they...