Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hotels had allotted 1% of their transient space (625 rooms) to delegates, but problems still arose. At the dignified Plaza, onetime haunt of the late F. Scott Fitzgerald, bullet-headed Soviet agents looked for a room for Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, turned down one with a balcony for fear a capitalist might rope his way up to the window with a roscoe. China's Victor Hoo knocked at the wrong room at the Waldorf-Astoria, was handed a bundle of laundry, had to exercise the utmost diplomacy to get the woman inside to take it back...
...Manchuria, the Red Army's Major General Andrei Kovtun-Stankevich was the latest to apply for admission to the lodge. He told nine British and U.S. correspondents who asked why Mukden's factories were stripped (see FOREIGN NEWS) that the Big Three had okayed these Russian removals "either at Yalta or Berlin-I'm not sure, offhand...
This week Russia was still picking through the bare bones for industrial loot. When Red Army men carted off machinery from the Mukden ice plant, the city's new Chinese mayor, Tung Wen-chi, protested to the Russian garrison commander, Major General Andrei Kovtun-Stankevich. A man of remarkable statements (see INTERNATIONAL), the Soviet officer blandly replied: "The Red Army is very powerful. I cannot stop them...
...Canadian Press reported from London that Russia's Andrei Vishinsky was en route to Canada. It turned out to be Louis Rasminsky, a Bank of Canada official homeward bound from...
...Goes Home? In UNO, Andrei Vishinsky preached Soviet doctrine in the form most repulsive to the West. Vishinsky insisted that each country should control its own refugees, wherever located, and should be allowed to force them to return home. He denounced all "propaganda" against UNO and its members in the refugee camps...