Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collision. The bargaining went on. At a second steering-committee meeting, Molotov conceded Ed Stettinius his important committee chairmanships, settled for Big Four rotation of the conference presidency. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had promised at Yalta to support the Russian demand for three Assembly votes; it carried without a public dissent...
Well content, Molotov raised but did not Dress Moscow's third immediate demand-recognition and seating at the conference of Poland's still unreconstructed Warsaw Government. Stettinius, backed to the hilt by President Truman and Anthony Eden, met Molotov headon, and the Polish proposal never had a chance...
...Collision. The bargaining went on. At a second steering-committee meeting, Molotov conceded Ed Stettinius his important committee chairmanships, settled for Big Four rotation of the conference presidency. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had promised at Yalta to support the Russian demand for three Assembly votes; it carried without a public dissent...
Well content, Molotov raised but did not Dress Moscow's third immediate demand-recognition and seating at the conference of Poland's still unreconstructed Warsaw Government. Stettinius, backed to the hilt by President Truman and Anthony Eden, met Molotov headon, and the Polish proposal never had a chance...
...more serious mood, French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault sprang a neat maneuver on Secretary Stettinius, got French accepted as an official language of the conference. Later, during long translations of English into French, the French fidgeted with the rest...