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...would like to begin," said Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, "by expressing our sincere appreciation to Mr. Robinson, the mayor of San Francisco, for the hospitality accorded to us in this marvelous city." His voice was flat and expressionless; before him in anxious rows sat New Zealanders, Nicaraguans and Norwegians, Pakistanis, Panamanians and Paraguayans; the western suits of the Yemenites showed from beneath their Arab robes...
They should agree to renounce the use of atomic and hydrogen weapons." Vyacheslav Molotov was ready with seeming concessions. He accepted a Western disarmament point that atomic weapons, prior to prohibition, could be used for defense against aggression-but with the proviso that the U.N. Security Council (where Russia has a veto) is the sole arbiter of what constitutes an act of aggression...
...News to Me." But not even this unlooked-for embarrassment of St. Lawrence Island deterred Vyacheslav Molotov from the momentum of his moderation. Molotov joined in the U.N.'s biggest hand for Harry Truman, who said of another unwarranted Communist attack-Korea: "That aggression was met as it had to be met." Molotov next did the extraordinary and un-Russian thing of requesting a press conference, and ably fenced questions and answers for half an hour with 100 U.S. and foreign correspondents. When one U.S. reporter asked him about the incident of St. Lawrence Island, Molotov replied...
...next un-Russian thing to happen was that Vyacheslav Molotov did exactly that. "The Soviet government expresses regret," said Molotov, after the more familiar slurs against "some representatives of the American command who obviously are not interested in the prevention of this sort of incident." Molotov then told Dulles that Russia would pay half the cost of the damaged plane, claiming that the Neptune was on the Russian side of the border but that "atmospheric conditions made possible an error." Responded John Foster Dulles: "It is gratifying that he expressed regret and at least indicated willingness to make some reparations...
...months-by cable, special emissary and high-level negotiation-CBS tried for the TV coup of the year. Fortnight ago, everything seemed to be set. Arriving in the U.S., Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov agreed by telegram to face a battery of U.S. reporters on CBS's Face the Nation. Details, the telegram said, could be ironed out at San Francisco, where the telecast would originate following the tenth commemorative meeting of the United Nations...