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...returned to the U.S. in 1946, laden with honors. But his public life was far from over: that same year, Harry Truman appointed Smith U.S. Ambassador to Russia. In that cold war outpost, Smith was a frustrated forward observer. Emerging from the Kremlin one day, he snapped to reporters: "Molotov, three hours. No Stalin. No comment." But his analysis of the Russians was shrewd. The Communists, said Beedle Smith, "have read Von Clausewitz and they believe that war is merely politics transferred to another sphere...
...barely opened her mouth before students outside the hall began whistling and catcalling, "Let's swap Che's mother for a tractor!" A tear-gas bomb popped in the auditorium, rocks smashed through windows and doors. The battle raged for more than two hours until a Molotov cocktail set the place afire...
...Enemy. In Vienna, one of the first men Khrushchev chanced to see was Vyacheslav M. Molotov. The two men had last exchanged words four years before at a tense moment in Communist Party history when Khrushchev kicked Molotov out of the Party Presidium in a crucial power struggle. As befitted a low-ranking delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Molotov stood at the station in a crowd of Soviet women and children. "We must get together," said Khrushchev, unabashed, as he reached out to shake Molotov's plump hand. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...curious encounter served as reminder that, whatever the strains in the Western camp, stresses are always at work in the Communist hierarchy. Last week at Vienna, the stresses were present in Khrushchev's mind. Molotov, a hard-line Stalinist, had lost. But for Khrushchev there was the longstanding and probably more formidable threat from another Stalinist, Red China's Mao Tse-tung, who has challenged Khrushchev's dogma of "peaceful coexistence." Some observers credit Mao with forcing Khrushchev into more belligerence than he considered wise in Cuba and Laos. In backward Outer Mongolia, the Russians and Chinese...
Acheson's book is a completely different genre. If the merit of Kennan's book lies in its profundity and its classic prose; that of Acheson's lies in its sensitivity. Sketches from Life is a series of delicate personality sketches of Bevin, Schuman, Churchill, Molotov, Vyshinsky, Salazar, Vanderberg, Marshall and Adenauer...