Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan lightly touched a finger to his sensitive nose and said that he, too, hoped to hear soon from His Majesty's Government. Russia's Andrei Gromyko said nothing-and nobody asked...
...Andrei Gromyko, who has been penned up in the Plaza on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, got hold of a country place on the plushy north shore of Long Island.* The main diggings (in old Woodbury): a Georgian brick pile with a nice third floor for servants, a five-car garage, landscaped grounds. Neighbors: Wall Streeter Henry Rogers Winthrop and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Landlady: Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, widow of the ex-Secretary of the Treasury...
Last week Andrei Gromyko, Russia's representative to U.N., appeared at a Garden rally sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. While spotlights beat down on him, he launched an oblique attack on the U.S.: "[U.N.s'] early activities have revealed a tendency on the part of certain countries to play a dominating part in the organization to the detriment of the cause of peace and security." His audience of 18,000 cheered him to the roof. Outside the Garden, the cops boredly walked their beat, chomped their gum, guarding Mr. Gromyko's right to freedom...
...night last week Andrei Vishinsky, Russian-Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, strode into the paneled, tapestried chamber of Paris' Palace of Justice where Pétain and Laval were tried for treason. For two hours he spoke on "Principles of Soviet Law" to a group of 200 French Resistance lawyers and their families...
...horseshoe table, including the three (France, Mexico, Poland) which had originally backed Russia's demand for immediate U.N. action against Franco, supported Australia's proposal for a five-man subcommittee to sift the facts on Spain and suggest by May 31 what "practical measures" U.N. could take. Andrei Gromyko said he "intensely disagreed" but would abstain, "realizing that my vote against the proposal would make its adoption impossible." Gromyko thus reiterated Russia's sweeping interpretation of the veto. Earlier, Russia had threatened another walkout from U.N. After the Council voted down 8-to-3 his demand that...