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...prospects were like the setting-somber. Dulles, Eden and Bidault went to see whether Russia was ready to live more peaceably and honestly with the democratic world. But they were privately afraid that Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov had come to make not peace but more mischief...
Britain's Anthony Eden calmly seconded Bidault's words. Then Vyacheslav Molotov took the floor. He started off with the discouraging demand that the Foreign Ministers first discuss an invitation to a conference to include Red China. While Eden made temples with his hands and Bidault toyed with his left ear, Molotov let loose a quiverful of barbs at the U.S. U.S. bases abroad have been built to menace the U.S.S.R., said he, but the plan is "doomed to inevitable failure"; the U.S. has committed "gross violations" of the Korean truce agreement...
Dulles, asking for time to compose his answer to Molotov's attack, passed his turn to speak until next day. "The problem now," said he, "is to get the conference back on the track of its main purpose, Germany and Austria." "A little bit disappointing," said the British. On that unpromising note, Berlin's first unpromising day ended...
...French diplomat. "But they won't want it to end." He was undoubtedly right: the longer the Russians can keep the Foreign Ministers in session in Berlin, the longer France would delay getting down to voting on the European Army. But John Foster Dulles is anxious to get Molotov to the table, to see whether anything is on his mind, so Washington talked Paris and London into conceding...
Last week in Moscow, Molotov told the French ambassador that the Kremlin's priority list for Berlin is: 1) a Big Five conference, to include Red China; 2) European security, including the German question; and 3) "world disarmament." It sounded like the same old thing, all wrapping and no meat...