Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with food and water, and with Benzedrine to keep them from falling asleep and being ambushed, the French reached Xiengkhouang (pronounced sing kwong), a market town in north Laos. But the Communists, with an estimated force of 40,000 men, kept pressing forward, with long lines of Russian-made Molotov trucks following up with supplies. Xiengkhouang's 1,500 civilians were ordered to evacuate. Chinese opium traders, pony-riding Meo tribesmen, iron miners and ranch hands streamed south...
Baiting Aunty Molly was one of Stalin's pet pastimes during World War II. To General de Gaulle, who went to Moscow to negotiate a Franco-Soviet treaty, Stalin wisecracked: "You are a hard bargainer. You got the better of Molotov. I think we shall have to shoot him." Frenchman and Russian laughed until they noticed Molotov white with fear...
Molly's Offensive. As Foreign Minister, Molotov has made his mistakes, some of them thumping big ones. He misread Tito, lost the airlift battle of Berlin, mis judged U.S. reaction to the invasion of South Korea. Above all, he and his "fellow Politburocrats allowed the nakedness of Communist aggression to alert the West to rearm. To undo that "error" is now the principal external target of Russia's peace offensive...
British officialdom believes that Molotov will be the Lepidus to Malenkov's Antony and Beria's Octavian. "It's as though he has been thrown across the gap between the old and the new regime, like a Bailey bridge. While Molotov's got a use, they'll use him. But once they've got their feet firmly planted on the other bank, the bridge will be discarded...
...discarding process will not be easy, for Old Bolshevik Molotov, as George Kennan puts it, is "a smart old fox. He has extraordinary qualities of survival, or he wouldn't have lived through the Stalin regime." In Communist eyes, Molotov's preservatives are great ability and slavish loyalty. At a time when internal Soviet necessity demands a double-headed policy of making war through peace, Vyacheslav Molotov is an extremely useful...