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...longer be said," exulted Molotov, "that the Soviet Union, China and others would have any special advantages in conventional armaments as compared to the other powers...
They should agree to renounce the use of atomic and hydrogen weapons." Vyacheslav Molotov was ready with seeming concessions. He accepted a Western disarmament point that atomic weapons, prior to prohibition, could be used for defense against aggression-but with the proviso that the U.N. Security Council (where Russia has a veto) is the sole arbiter of what constitutes an act of aggression...
...Lawrence Island, a forlorn, treeless place of volcanic origin. This is the region where Alaska and the Soviet Union stare face to face at one another across three to 55 miles of icy waters, and it was there one lonely morning last week, just about the hour that Molotov addressed the U.N., that a U.S. Navy P2V-5 Neptune patrol plane flew on its routine radar patrol...
...calculated to fit in with the harmony at San Francisco, and the U.S. reacted angrily. The President phoned the Pentagon from New England, got the-details, and declared through his press secretary: "The attack on our plane was inexplicable and unwarranted." Secretary of State Dulles took it up with Molotov in an interview that Dulles' aides called "businesslike and succinct...
...News to Me." But not even this unlooked-for embarrassment of St. Lawrence Island deterred Vyacheslav Molotov from the momentum of his moderation. Molotov joined in the U.N.'s biggest hand for Harry Truman, who said of another unwarranted Communist attack-Korea: "That aggression was met as it had to be met." Molotov next did the extraordinary and un-Russian thing of requesting a press conference, and ably fenced questions and answers for half an hour with 100 U.S. and foreign correspondents. When one U.S. reporter asked him about the incident of St. Lawrence Island, Molotov replied...