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Russia was still a mystery, at least to Britain. What was discussed when Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov visited Berlin was still secret, but all the world knew the classic cornerstone of Russian diplomacy: that no nation but Russia should control the Black Sea straits. Joseph Stalin's choice was now a grim one. If he acquiesced in the Axis Drang nach Osten, he ran the risk of being bottled in both the Baltic and Black Seas by Germany. If he did not, he ran the risk of being attacked by 2,000,000 real soldiers through what used...
...little yes-men of Europe's little boss men scurried from place to place last week. If the lives of millions of little plain men had not depended on what they did, their actions would have looked a little silly. Joseph Stalin's man, Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, arrived in Berlin in the rain and was greeted by Adolf Hitler's men, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel. At Anhalt station were also the Ambassadors of China, Turkey and Japan, bowing & scraping and watching Premier Molotov's every gesture for a hint of what Boss Stalin...
Russia's Premier and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov took a train for Berlin this week. It was the first time that schoolmasterish Comrade Molotov had ever left his own country, and only the most pressing business could have induced him to go to Berlin. The business was pressing. For weeks Adolf Hitler has wanted to know how Russia would react to a concerted Axis drive to the East. For weeks Joseph Stalin has stalled...
Russia, long the most hated nation in the world, became by virtue of the treaty the most sought-after power in the world. U. S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, who had vacationed in the U. S. while the treaty was being cooked up, paid a hurried call on Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. British Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps got busy. Japanese Ambassador Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, who hates Communists but loves the "simple, pure-minded Russians," conferred with German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg about the non-aggression treaty Japan hopes to negotiate with the U. S. S. R. to safeguard...
When Ambassador Shkvartsev's chief, Premier and Foreign Minister Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, learned of these conversations he was reminded of a historic parallel. At Tilsit Napoleon proposed to Tsar Alexander I that the two rulers share Europe. If Alexander had stuck to his agreement there would have been no Franco-Russian war. Said Viacheslav Mikhailovich to his chief, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin: "Why not meditate on this example...