Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Khoury of Syria last week, "was cast by a permanent member. . . . Therefore, he frustrated the proposal." This time, El Khoury was not talking about the Russians, who have cast 18 vetoes. He meant Alexandre Parodi, delegate of France, whose only previous veto had been a joint affair with Andrei Gromyko more than a year ago. Last week, on his own, Parodi had parodied Gromyko...
Apart from the evidence that some Egyptians took it seriously, the Security Council had little to cheer about. During the week, Andrei Gromyko had blackballed the U.N. membership applications of Trans-Jordan, Eire, Portugal, Italy and Austria. He had blocked two more resolutions to do something about Greece. These Soviet gestures had required seven more vetoes (breaking all records for any week) and had raised the Russian total to 18 vetoes...
...editorials. He is assisted by Physics Professor Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsin (Atomic Energy), Economist Alexander P. Morozov (ECOSOC) and Lieut. General Alexander P. Vasiliev (Military Staff Committee). Gromyko works as hard as any man on his team. "Oh," says Mme. Gromyko with a nice sense for the hierarchy of toil, "Andrei does work hard, yet not as hard as Mr. Vishinsky, and even that is not so hard as Mr. Molotov works...
...Yogi & the Commissar. Andrei Gromyko is an almost perfect neo-paleolithic specimen. When the Communist Party hacked its bloody way to power in 1917, Gromyko was eight years old. He, like millions with him and after him, never had a toy, a dream, a book or an ideal that was not somehow tinged by the penetrating hue of Communist dogma. That such men exist, that they occupy positions of power is one of the most important facts in today's world. Gromyko does not belong in the category of the commissars of the 1920s, who were far more imaginative...
...world political situation has not improved. ... [But] I am convinced that no responsible statesman in any country can, or does, contemplate the prospect of war." For the immediate future Lie was probably right; but Lake Success was haunted by the fear that a fateful day would come when Andrei Gromyko, the Neanderthal diplomat, would hunch his shoulders and follow his bulbous nose out of a door for the last time...