Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never did Root's words ring truer than they did last week. At the General Assembly of U.N. another Secretary of State, George Marshall, rose to launch a new debate on the course of history. The Soviets' Andrei Vishinsky answered him and (said the New York Times) "his vehemence left many of his listeners stunned and heartsick" (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Germany, it would be vain- Andrei smiled: "Veto again...
...event that Hirohito-" Andrei snapped: "Veto, veto...
Many of the delegates whose job it is to find the answers, crept into town almost furtively. Headed by sly Andrei Vishinsky (Molotov is staying at home for a while), Russia's sprawling delegation whisked off to its snuggery among the millionaires on Long Island's north shore. Officials at U.N.'s Secretariat resolutely turned down reporters' requests for a list of other delegates' hotels. "There have been protests," explained an official with a somewhat sly look, "particularly from the Arabs. Probably they don't want to be disturbed...
...Tribune. But in the current '47, his friend John Hersey spoke up for him, giving some lowdown that was news even to Capa's publishers. Capa, said Hersey, is "The Man Who Invented Himself." He was thought up in Paris by a poor Hungarian free-lancer named Andrei Friedmann and his sweetheart, Gerda. The better to sell Friedmann's pictures to unwilling French editors, they palmed them off as the work of one Capa, a talented visitor from America. It worked in reverse, too, when they sold Capa to U.S. publishers as a talented Frenchman. Eventually, after...