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DAVID DALLIN, author of Soviet Russia's Foreign Policy, in a letter to the New York Times: vYACHESLAV MOLOTOV'S repeated warnings are intended to prepare the West for a significant new move on the part of the Soviet Union. In the first years after the war it was expected, both in Russia and abroad, that the newly emerging satellite states would be incorporated into the Soviet Union...
...Chinese civilians were homeless. Ho's patient preparation was finally rewarded last spring, when the Communists struck characteristically on two fronts 5,000 miles apart: with Red China field guns and Russian rocket launchers, they crumbled the valiant French garrison at Dien-bienphu; with Chou En-lai and Molotov, they crumbled Western resolution at Geneva. One day last month, in one of the most extraordinary spectacles of Asia's long, unfolding panorama, French tanks withdrew from Hanoi before Viet Minh infantrymen wearing sneakers...
...another point, Molotov raised his glass to "better understanding" between the U.S. and Russia. "Chip" Bohlen responded handsomely by describing Comrade Molotov as "the most experienced diplomat in this room," recalled Molotov's incognito visit to Washington as "Mr. Brown" during World War II, and toasted "his next visit to Washington." Then Bohlen leaned over to reporters behind him and made it plain that he was not really extending an invitation...
...detained for more than an hour. The Soviet version of the incident, said U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen, "is in such flagrant contradiction of the facts that I am sure the Soviet Foreign Ministry will wish to change it." Even after a personal call from Bohlen, however, Foreign Minister Molotov showed no such disposition. Molotov in fact seemed eager to exploit the matter, in marked contrast to a recent hushed-up but far more serious, affair involving two British embassy employees who beat up a couple of Russian policemen, but were allowed to leave the country without fuss...
...Moscow last week, Senator-Correspondent Smith held an hour-long "general discussion" with Foreign Minister Molotov. Later, to the bewilderment of the State Department, she declared that she would not be surprised if U.S.-Soviet diplomatic relations were "broken off at any time by either side." See It Now viewers will get a report this month on the Molotov meeting and can look forward to a fuller explanation of Reporter Smith's teaser about U.S.-Soviet relations...