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...Moscow one night last week, the handful of Western newsmen got an extraordinary summons to the Foreign Ministry on Smolensk Square. Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov had scheduled the first Moscow press conference held by any Soviet official for foreign correspondents since 1947. Encased in the standard double-breasted blue suit and standing sternly beneath a portrait of Stalin, Molotov faced the press and raced through a twelve-page statement in Russian...
...Soviet diplomatic reception in 1945, when commissars still talked to Western newsmen, Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov proposed a toast to the Associated Press's Moscow chief, Eddy Gilmore. "You don't like censorship," said Molotov. "What would you say if I proposed reciprocity?" The puzzled Gilmore downed a one-gulp toast to "reciprocity" and, like Molotov, turned the glass upside down over his head to show that it was empty. With a drop or two of vodka still trickling down his nose, Molotov walked on, leaving Gilmore wondering what he meant. Next day the Russians suddenly stopped censorship...
...time, he got his reward: he was charged, like thousands of his victims, with being an enemy of the people, imperialist spy, etc. Yagoda was the third of the great cops, following Felix Dzerzhinsky, the lean, cat-eyed Polish aristocrat, who lies buried in the Kremlin wall, and Vyacheslav Menshinsky, another Pole, who invented the great show trials of 1936 (Vishinsky prosecuting) and was himself later done...
...switch jobs with Jacob A. Malik, First Deputy Foreign Minister in Moscow. This was the post Gromyko held when he was sent to London last year to relieve Georgy N. Zarubin, now Ambassador to Washington. The new job will make Gromyko once again right-hand helper of Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov and give him, in title at least, equal rank with the other First Deputy, Andrei Vishinsky...
...extraordinary qualities of survival, or he wouldn't have lived through the Stalin regime." In Communist eyes, Molotov's preservatives are great ability and slavish loyalty. At a time when internal Soviet necessity demands a double-headed policy of making war through peace, Vyacheslav Molotov is an extremely useful...