Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smart, swift, hard-hitting Russian diplomacy had done it again. One week after Rumania, Finland was out of the war.† In Moscow the Finnish armistice terms were signed by Foreign Minister Enckell for Finland and for Russia by Andrei Zhdanov, president of the Leningrad Soviet and Joseph Stalin's heir apparent...
...Alec" and "Andrei." Hearty, handsome Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius grappled with such matters all week. As host to the 39 diplomats (ten Russians, eleven Britons, 18 Americans), he felt the impulse to introduce a little fun-&-games into the delegates' off-hours...
...breezily informal address to the conferees, in which Mr. Roosevelt cheerfully pointed out that getting along was all a matter of getting together and of liking each other. The very next day Ed Stettinius began heartily backslapping the British and Russians, and would call loudly, "Alec!" and "Andrei!" to the British chief, Sir Alexander Cadogan, and the Russian chief, Andrei Gromyko. Sir Alexander, 59, an urbane, reserved British Foreign Office specialist, winced slightly; Ambassador Gromyko gave a scarcely perceptible shrug. But both bore up bravely under this American jollity, and by week's end even seemed to be used...
...think the conference could have been held earlier or else postponed until later. Right now there were pressing problems right on her doorstep-Poland, the Baltic States and even the disposition of German territory. Secondly, she had disappointed the U.S. and Britain by choosing 35-year-old Ambassador Andrei Andreevich Gromyko to head her delegation. Yet on his arrival this week, fresh from Moscow, Ambassador Gromyko was "most optimistic" about the conference's success...
...open, Russia asked for a week's delay. This was Blow No. 1. A little later, Blow No. 2 fell. The Russian representative was named. He was neither of the two men U.S. and British diplomats had expected, neither the Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinoff, nor Andrei Vishinsky. He was youngish (35) Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, who holds his first important post as Ambassador to the U.S., and who is only a little less inexperienced than Ed Stettinius...