Word: andrei
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Last week the deputies of the Big Four got down to preliminary work at Lancaster House. They were a professional crew: the U.S.'s political expert on Germany, Ambassador Robert D. Murphy; Patrick Dean of the British Foreign Office; Andrei A. Smirnov of Russia's Foreign Ministry; and France's career diplomat Jacques Tarbe de St. Hardouin. Their job was not to negotiate, merely to set' up the issues which Marshall, Bevin, Bidault and Molotov would consider...
...Extraordinary & Infamous." The Kremlin feels that it must change the minds of Italian (and other) workers even if that means taking away the spaghetti. Moscow's Pravda made that point clear when it devoted two pages to an explanation of the Little Comintern by Andrei Zhdanov...
This unanimous vote followed defeat of the Russian anti-warmongering resolution. Andrei Vishinsky and his Slav-bloc friends started from the premise that private ownership of the means of production leads to war. It followed, in Communist logic, that warmongering could not exist in the U.S.S.R., and must exist in the U.S. The Russian resolution named the U.S., Greece and Turkey as responsible for warmongering. Vishinsky demanded that all U.N. governments punish as criminals any citizens whose words might lead...
This campaign of vilification was of course not "warmongering," in Moscow's eyes. Only "capitalist imperialist gangsters" could be warmongers, and they, it seemed, stretched their claws everywhere. Russia's Andrei Zhdanov had called for ideological as well as political resistance to the U.S. Last week the French Communist paper L'Humanité took it from there. Introducing a special anti-American cultural section to run Wednesdays and Fridays, L'Humanité cried: "America degrades the spirit." It got down to cases...
...York Times, almost alone among the world's newspapers, likes to print the full texts of the more important speeches and documents it reports. So when Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky violently attacked U.S. "warmongers" (TIME, Sept. 29), the Times took 13 columns to run his speech verbatim...