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After each had gone over what the tripartite group had decided upon, Dulles, Eden and Bidault conferred for half an hour before the day's session. The result in the first week (see below) was a unity that Molotov had yet to dent...
...Team. At the table, Molotov, when confronted with a coordinated opposition, proved surprisingly pliant on procedure-though not on program. Another surprise was to see the Western Big Three, who often make headlines by their differences, functioning as smoothly as a basketball team. They were prepared, they were assured, and they refused to be diverted or divided. Much of this new drive came from John Foster Dulles...
Dulles regards Molotov as one of the most resourceful diplomats of the 20th century, but he does not fear to tangle with him, for he is confident that the West is in a sounder position. He refused to be frustrated by procedural trivia. He yielded when opposition was time wasted. He forced the pace when the Russians sought delay. "If conferences can do nothing better than to create new conferences, and the new conferences do nothing better than to create more new conferences . . . the whole conference method will become an object of ridicule, and we with it," he warned Molotov...
Greyer, but more relaxed and amiable than when Stalin was alive, Vyacheslav Molotov gazed straight ahead through his pince-nez. He was outnumbered three to one, but as usual was demanding that the majority do business...
Because the recent soviet proposals are so obviously ineffectual, they can only be regarded as propaganda devices. So far in the Berlin talks, Mr. Molotov has produced two diplomatic victories to wave before the Russian people. He has offered the West wholly unfeasible plans for atomic control and the unification of Germany and has accomplished what has long been a goal of Russian diplomacy: to make the West appear as opponents of peace. If anything constructive is to come from the Berlin talks, the West must insist that the conference confine its efforts to the important questions of Germany...