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...final days of the foreign ministers' conference, Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov disposed brusquely of any illusion that the Russians might make concessions in the only area where the West had any real hope of progress. Every Western proposal for improved East-West contacts was either "inadmissible" or "interference" with Russia's internal affairs. "We will not grant freedom of propaganda calling for an atomic attack," he snapped, or for importing "all kinds of scum of society thrown out by the peoples of the countries of socialism and people's democracy...
Item I. Overnight the West worked out a common strategy. Molotov had accepted the onus of keeping Germany divided: the West would therefore see to it that the onus stuck. Promptly at 4 p.m., the conference came to order and Harold Macmillan took the floor. His voice was icy with anger...
...occasion were blown up to enormous size and placarded throughout Eastern Europe as "proof" that the U.S. had made friends with the Soviet Union and no longer had any interest in setting the satellites free. Last week, when newsmen sought another smiling picture, this time of Vyacheslav Molotov chumming up with John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State said no. It was a challenge that no photographer could or would ignore...
...week long the cameramen of many nations pursued Dulles from conference to conference, determined to catch him and Molotov in friendly discussion. They tried at Molotov's villa after Dulles paid a visit, but no sooner did the lenses appear than Dulles, who was getting into his Cadillac, brusquely told the chauffeur to "get going." When U.S. photographers asked for the usual formal portrait of all the foreign ministers, the Secretary turned it down. He had a narrow escape at the British reception, but managed to get Harold Macmillan between him and Molotov before the shutters clicked...
Amid all of Geneva's disappointments, one solid agreement was reached. Dulles and Molotov, meeting privately, agreed to new membership in the United Nations for 17 nations, four of them Communist. The package deal, in which Britain and France concurred, would break nine years of deadlock and increase U.N. membership from 60 to 77. Russia promised not to veto the West's list: Austria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal and Spain. In return, the U.S. would not veto the Russian candidates: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. The U.S. also, agreed to abstain...