Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Molotov never appeared without his flying wedge of guards and his interpreter.* Some of them were inoffensive consultants in his delegation, but they all spelled Ogpu to the onlookers. The contrast with Stettinius and Eden, striding carelessly through the lobbies, was too much for Americans, who often forget that three of their Presidents have been assassinated...
Most of the committeemen expected to elect the official host, Secretary Stettinius, permanent president of the conference. Anthony Eden made the routine nomination. Curt and strained, Molotov rose and objected. The conference, he said, should have four presidents, one for each of the sponsoring powers (the U.S., Russia, Britain. China); each of the presidents should take his turn with the gavel, and together they should control all the business of the conference. The delegation heads who made up the steering committee heard this proposal with successive disbelief, dismay, anger: it seemed to them to be a deliberate, pointless affront...
Secretary Stettinius, who was presiding, kept his head, kept out of the quarrel, and did his failing best to keep order. Molotov had forewarned both Stettinius and Anthony Eden that he would propose to rotate the presidency, but not that he wanted to tie up all conference procedure in a four-man presidium. Eden finally suggested a way out: rotate the conference presidency, make Stettinius permanent chairman of the potent steering and executive committees. Molotov seemed to agree, then insisted that only the four-way split of the conference presidency be announced that day. Everything was put over until...
...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...