Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interpretations cleared away, the move seemed logical, the motives obvious. On Nov. 3, the Kremlin had issued a heavy-handed note harshly spurning a U.S.-British-French 'proposal for a Big Four foreign-ministers' meeting in Lugano, Switzerland. That note, apparently drafted by underlings in Foreign Minister Molotov's absence, was patently a blunder. Its truculence "shocked the world," as the U.S. State Department put it; any neutralist could plainly see that the Russians did not want to reach agreement with the West...
...Moscow one night last week, the handful of Western newsmen got an extraordinary summons to the Foreign Ministry on Smolensk Square. Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov had scheduled the first Moscow press conference held by any Soviet official for foreign correspondents since 1947. Encased in the standard double-breasted blue suit and standing sternly beneath a portrait of Stalin, Molotov faced the press and raced through a twelve-page statement in Russian...
...hard line (TIME, Nov. 16). It would not do to let it be seen so plainly that it was the Russians, not the stubborn Americans, who were frustrating a Big Four meeting on Germany. "The urgency of the foreign ministers' conference is by no means diminished," insisted Molotov, trying to throw the onus back on to the West...
What seemed to disturb Molotov most was the Western powers' decision to sit down among themselves next fortnight in Bermuda, when Churchill, Eisenhower and France's Joseph Laniel will get together for the first time since Ike became President. "Conferences of this kind . . . tend to put certain states in opposition to other states . . ." Molotov complained...
...London's left-wing New Statesman and Nation, Raab recently sounded out Russia via New Delhi, to inquire whether the Russians would be prepared to sign the Austrian peace treaty "if Austria pledged itself to complete neutrality." The reply, through India's Nehru: "Neutrality not sufficient. Molotov...