Word: yves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Kremlin again went the three men from the West-Walter Bedell Smith of the U.S., Frank Roberts of Britain and Yves Chataigneau of France. They had agreed beforehand on a new proposal for "settling" the Berlin crisis. Smith had their plan in his briefcase. Stalin greeted them genially. Before Smith had a chance to open his case, Stalin said: "Gentlemen, I have a plan. Here it is. I believe you will find it acceptable to your governments." Stalin's plan was almost identical with the one Smith carried. The Russians and the West had reached an agreement...
Smith, Roberts and French Ambassador Yves Chataigneau finally agreed to issue a hold-for-release warning of each Kremlin meeting, and a tipoff on which embassy would be host at the subsequent huddle. This saved legwork in surrounding all three embassies, but produced no real news; correspondents were reduced to cabling analyses (which sometimes disagreed) of the envoys' facial expressions. In five meetings, the press got about 120 noncommittal words out of Smith, less than that out of Roberts, nothing but vague smiles out of Chataigneau, not even a smile out of Molotov...
When U.S. Ambassador Bedell Smith left the Kremlin one night last week, he said to newsmen: "Molotov, three hours. No Stalin. No comment." The reporters then turned to Frank Roberts of Britain. "You heard him, didn't you?" said Roberts. "No comment." Yves Chatigneau of France smiled, said nothing...
Smith was one of three Western envoys who, after conferences in Berlin and London, had traveled to Moscow in search of peace. The others were Yves Chataigneau of France and tubby, popular Frank Roberts of Britain's Foreign Office, substituting for Britain's ailing ambassador. Their immediate purpose: to see Foreign Minister Molotov...
Included on the program are Serenata (1930) of Casella; Kirchenkantate no. 189, "Meine Seele nuhint and preist," by Rach with tenor Yves Tinayre, as soloist; Divertimento (1946) by Piston; Serenade a Angelique (1945) by Honegger...