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...Russian sincerity. In the study there was an air of confidence that had been missing from Western councils since World War II. The three men drew up a list of ground rules for the Big Four conference at Geneva-a list that they will present to Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov in San Francisco this week...
Fellow Travelers. By all odds the most interesting VIP to arrive in the U.S. last week was Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. It was difficult indeed for the free world to accept the picture of Chou giving pleasant little dinner parties for democratic diplomats in Bandung, or Khrushchev reeling with conviviality in Belgrade - but Molotov's change of pace was almost unbelievable. Twenty years of treachery and invective toward the West had made Molotov a symbol of the fanatic, devious, hate-filled Old Bolshevik. Now, like good Communists everywhere, he was suddenly trying to win friends and influence people...
...named a fascinating slate-North Viet Nam, Burma, Indonesia and Siam from Asia; Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Czechoslovakia from Europe. Maybe Japan and Canada might be included, he added blandly. Russia's Molotov, on his way to San Francisco for the U.N. celebration, dropped down on Paris for lunch with Premier Edgar Faure. Reportedly Molotov suggested that Russia and France have many interests in common-such as a belief that a divided Germany is safer than a whole...
...clumsy attempt to make the U.S. responsible in advance if the conference should break down. The U.S. State Department had indicated its preference for a brief meeting of the heads of state, leaving the foreign ministers to get down to brass tacks. Such arrangements, wrote Foreign Minister Molotov, "cannot but condemn the meeting to failure." There had also been talk in Washington of "negotiating from strength." Molotov straight-facedly called this: "Inadmissible pressure on the conference...
Wanted: an Agenda. What the Big Four would talk about, no one seemed sure. Moscow hinted at Formosa, but the U.S. said no; Washington suggested the Soviet satellites, but Molotov promptly replied that this would be "interference with the internal affairs of other states...