ABSTRACT
We most earnestly want peace with Russia – but we want to be met half way. We want cooperation. And I believe that we can get cooperation once Russia understands that our primary objective is neither saving the British Empire nor purchasing oil in the Near East with the lives of American soldiers.
The Paris Peace Conference was discussing a peace treaty for Romania when on 10 October 1946 Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister, revealed his opinion of ‘equal opportunity’ or the ‘open world’ economy the United States was striving for. In so doing he overturned the principles of the Atlantic Charter and the Declaration on Liberated Europe.
