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...final days of the foreign ministers' conference, Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov disposed brusquely of any illusion that the Russians might make concessions in the only area where the West had any real hope of progress. Every Western proposal for improved East-West contacts was either "inadmissible" or "interference" with Russia's internal affairs. "We will not grant freedom of propaganda calling for an atomic attack," he snapped, or for importing "all kinds of scum of society thrown out by the peoples of the countries of socialism and people's democracy...
...Geneva, where the spirit of Geneva was born, the spirit of Geneva was laid to rest. The man who laid it to rest was Vyacheslav Molotov. He not only destroyed the hope of a negotiated reunification of Germany, but did it with the air of a man who didn't care who knows it. In effect, Soviet Russia told the world that it had already absorbed the benefits of Geneva's relaxation of tensions, and felt no further need to feign amiability. Or, as former French Premier Georges Bidault, veteran of many arguments with Molotov...
Before flying back to Geneva for the second week of the foreign ministers conference, Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov attended a bibulous Moscow reception celebrating the38th anniversary...
Bolshevik Revolution. It was a heady affair ringing with Old Bolshevik Kaganovich's boast that the 20th century would be "the century of Communism, was a tonic to abstemious old Vyacheslav Molotov who has never been able to disguise his implacable hostility to the West or to play with any conviction the role ot a man out to relax tensions. That night he exulted to a newsman: "I have heard many good things in Moscow. I am leaving for Geneva with even better baggage than I brought...
...Pictures of the occasion were blown up to enormous size and placarded throughout Eastern Europe as "proof" that the U.S. had made friends with the Soviet Union and no longer had any interest in setting the satellites free. Last week, when newsmen sought another smiling picture, this time of Vyacheslav Molotov chumming up with John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State said no. It was a challenge that no photographer could or would ignore...