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...year ago, for the grim Geneva Conference in the week of Dienbienphu, Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov had demanded and got a closed, bulletproof limousine. Last week, the Russians climbed into open cars and toured Geneva like politicians running for the town council. Premier Nikolai Bulganin beamed and waved his grey fedora; Party Boss Khrushchev mugged, grinned and snapped pictures like a zealous tourist...
...Russian delegation posed willingly and often for photographers, while press officers hovered around, asking solicitously: "Anything more you want them to do?" In one of the new-style chats with a U.S. delegate, Old Stony-Face Molotov got to talking of the picture of him on his recent U.S. visit wearing a ten-gallon hat. "You see," he explained, "I am getting old now, and I'd like the people-including the Americans-to think of me as something more than a man who says no." The hat didn't fit, Molotov added, "but it's more...
...back to the big window overlooking Lake Geneva. To his left was France's Premier Faure. Opposite was Britain's Prime Minister Eden, famed diplomatist, epitome of the British faith in adjustments, not solutions. To his right sat the Russians, with Premier Bulganin flanked by Foreign Minister Molotov on one side. Party Boss Khrushchev on the other, all clothed with the respectability of gang leaders who never shoot anybody themselves...
Second Day. Next morning the West felt a stir of fresh hope when the Big Four's second team-the foreign ministers -quickly worked out an agenda with very little argument from Molotov. But at that afternoon's big session, Bulganin buried the last hope of achieving anything at all on Germany. A free Germany must be a Germany free of any military obligations to the West, he said flatly. He rejected Eden's proffered reassurance of a five-power security guarantee against a united Germany; such guarantees might be all very well for small, weak powers...
Fifth Day. The conference was all but over. The Russians now seemed subdued. In the foreign ministers' meeting, Molotov reverted to his old stonewalling tactics, answering efforts to clarify Russian positions by simply rereading Bulganin's speeches. The Russians would not agree to link German unification with European security, in the directive for the planned foreign ministers' meeting in October...