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PARIS--Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Russian Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov held a surprise one-hour conference today and diplomatic quarters believed that Molotov might have received fresh instructions from Moscow on the future of Trieste, biggest of the many problems which the Big Four foreign ministers face...
...obstacles round the same old course became too painfully familiar last week, he urged a recess to June 15. His equally battered colleagues agreed. Next day, as the adjournment meeting droned to a close, Byrnes made another move. "Gentlemen," he said, "I propose we go to the bar." Replied Viacheslav Molotov: "It will be the only proposal of the conference which was immediately and unanimously adopted...
After the Foreign Ministers' deadlock on Trieste, Viacheslav Molotov gave a party for 600 at the palatial Soviet Embassy with a very lush, very Russian buffet. After the deadlock on the Italian colonies, Ernest Bevin did the honors for 800 at the even more palatial British Embassy, with a much more austere buffet. Cinderella-like, Bidault, Byrnes and Molotov left on the stroke of midnight; no sooner had they gone than Bevin cracked his party's glaze of tension by foxtrotting with Lady Diana Duff Cooper...
Britain's Ernie Bevin and France's Georges Bidault approved the Byrnes plan in principle, but Russia's Viacheslav Molotov promptly countered that before he discussed a treaty to assure Germany's disarmament he would have to know just how far Germany had been disarmed. Tass, the Soviet news agency, was more explicit. It asked whether all Nazi military units had been "really dispersed" in the British zone and said that U.S. authorities, "for some reason or other," had let the Germans keep secret war enterprises...
...Anglo-Soviet-Iranian Treaty of Jan. 29, 1942 (to whose aims the U.S. later gave its blessing) pledged Britain and Russia to quit the country by March 2, 1946. When Britain and the U.S. last year sought to predate the deadline, Russian Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov acidly observed: "The Soviet Government is. guided strictly by the time limit established in the" 1942 treaty...