Word: shtampuyushchaya
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With that right clearly on the record, the Conference would not need to be a shtampuyushchaya mashina for its steering committee or for the Big Four...
They stayed in session till 9 p.m., but reached no agreement on the rules or the invitations. Over & over again the next day Molotov said: "The Soviet delegation cannot agree to anything which will violate the Moscow Declaration and which will make the Peace Conference a shtampuyushchaya mashina [rubber stamp machine...
...rubber stamp, let us leave it to the Conference to make its own rules. . . . Nowhere does it state, in the Moscow Declaration or anywhere else, that the Council of Foreign Ministers will establish the rules for the Peace Conference." Molotov came back with his sentence about the shtampuyushchaya...
Slow Peace. Non-Russian delegates were convinced by Molotov's manner that he had been reduced to a shtampuyushchaya mashina as a result of a telephonic bawling out from Moscow for being too soft at the July 4 night session. The Russians obviously wanted to delay the Peace Conference as long as possible because they knew that an overwhelming majority of the 21 nations opposed Russia's expansionist program. If the Conference had to be held, Russia wanted to tie it up with rules that would insure Russia against majority rule on the treaties...
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