Word: molotovs
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...Geneva's Palais des Nations, Dulles never looked at Chou. But Chou's placid face seemed to hold a cobralike fascination for U.S. delegates, who watched his every move. During refreshment time, Chou moved to the buffet table for an orange juice, flanked by Russia's Molotov and Gromyko and followed by platoons of bodyguards with bulging shoulder holsters...
...Rifts. Next day Molotov rose to endorse Chou's remarks, remarking pointedly that for the first time "all the great powers" were taking part in an international conference. To the U.S.'s unconcealed chagrin, neither Britain nor France, nor any other European delegation, rose to challenge the Communists' assertion that it was a five-power conference, or to counter the onslaught on the U.S., or to support the South Korean plan...
...fact was that many of the U.S. allies preferred nationwide elections to Rhee's proposed elections for North Korea only. It scarcely mattered. At a Saturday meeting of seven nations called in an attempt to break the deadlock, Molotov vetoed any idea of U.N.-supervised elections anywhere, insisted that in any electoral commission the North Koreans (pop. 5,000,000) get equal representation with South Korea (pop. 20 million)2 points on which the West is determined not to yield...
...head of the Soviet delegation to the U.N., commands a dozen voices, from the sly wheedle to the choleric roar, a dozen expressions, from the impish grin to the basilisk glare. For all his arrogance, he is a much more entertaining performer than Russia's wooden men-Molotov, Malik, Gromyko. He is also a remarkable survivor of 37 years of power struggle in the Kremlin. A onetime Menshevik, he came through unscathed when the Bolsheviks put the Mensheviks out of business in 1921. He not only rode out the great purges of the '30s but was the flamboyant...
Both the South Koreans and the North Koreans have claimed this distinction, and the decision will be completely in Molotov's hands...