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...right-wing Deputies, no longer able to delay the vote, sought to delay implementation of the treaties-to give Russia chance to show by her actions that German rearmament was unnecessary. Mendes moved with accustomed nimbleness. The French charge d'affaires in Moscow was instructed to talk with Molotov about the Austrian peace treaty. Then Mendes told the rightist Deputies: "If the Russians really have anything to say, they can say it to the charge...
...Communist newspapers agreed it was "a great event," but "the All-European Security Conference" was not so well attended as Molotov had hoped. No Western or even neutral country turned up. Across the hollow square of tables in Moscow's Spiridonovka House, Molotov was left confronting the hollow men representing Russia's seven European satellites...
...West insisted on going through with the Paris agreements, said Molotov, "the peace-loving states of Europe must unite their forces and considerably strengthen them . . . This demands that the countries attending the present conference carry out common measures in the field of organizing their military forces and commands" against "possible aggression." On cue, Premier Otto Grotewohl said that "should militarism be revived in West Germany," his East German Republic "will find itself forced to answer by forming national armed forces...
...Pieces. The others spoke their set pieces. Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz of Poland said he viewed revived German militarism (Western, that is) with alarm, and endorsed Molotov's suggestion for a united command. Premier Viliam Siroky of Czechoslovakia said he did, too. Deputy Premiers or Foreign Ministers of Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary and Rumania said they "eagerly," "warmly," "enthusiastically" supported Comrade Molotov's proposals. That took four days...
...signed the presentation book, announced that she had canceled her contribution to Churchill's birth day fund, since "I do not desire to pay tribute to a man who now reveals he was prepared to ... create a pact with Nazi forces more infamous and less justified than the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact...