Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Ministers had directed, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky, U.S. Ambassador William Averell Harriman and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr hurried to Bucharest to put into effect the new deal in the Balkans. These three, of all the millions who cared, would be the first to discover whether the Moscow conference had been a genuine advance over London, or just a meeting with a friendlier "tone...
...Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov has long been Stalin's closest Army friend. Andrei Alexandrovitch Zhdanov, 48, secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee and organizer of Leningrad's defense, represents the U.S.S.R. in Helsinki...
Russian Delegate Andrei Gromyko (Soviet Ambassador to Washington) objected. Apparently the Russians were afraid that the committees appointed at the first meeting would invade the agenda-planning prerogatives of the permanent councils. (Most of the small nations in the Assembly would like to do just that.) Gromyko insisted on a continuous session, the plenary meeting following immediately after the organizational...
...pressure on the King. . . . Our views about the Groza Government have been well known to the Russians since they removed the Radescu Government early this year and installed the present regime." Next, United Press, in a Bucharest dispatch filed abroad to avoid Rumanian censorship, reported that strong-arm Andrei Vishinsky, ace Russian trouble shooter, had given King Michael just two hours to dismiss Radescu, install Groza...
...Lieut. General Sir Ronald M. Weeks. An official statement said "useful decisions [were] reached in an atmosphere of complete and mutual understanding." Correspondents passed the word along that Marshal Zhukov, hitherto inhibited by the presence of the Kremlin's strong-arm troubleshooter, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky, had received more discretionary authority and was using it to speed up cooperation. Soon it was announced that...