Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Message from Molotov. The visiting Foreign Ministers sighed with relief and started packing. Dean Acheson was in his office when an aide brought in a slip of paper. Acheson read the note and burst out laughing. It was a message from Andrei Vishinsky, who had himself just received a message from Molotov in Moscow, requesting that the final communique on the conference be held up and that the Ministers convene once more...
...settlement. One such sign was furnished by United Nations World, a monthly magazine not officially connected with the U.N. but devoted to U.N. affairs. In an article quoted by major U.S. newspapers, the magazine said that Russia had decided on a major policy shift towards peace with the West. Andrei Gromyko, explained the U.N. World, had persuaded Joseph Stalin that the U.S. did not want war and that U.S. economic aid to Russia and Eastern Europe might be forthcoming if Moscow offered a genuine demonstration of good will. The Politburo, after heated debate, had accepted the "Gromyko Plan...
...everyone had expected, Andrei Vishinsky turned down the West's proposal for a Germany united on the basis of the Bonn constitution. He took two days and a lot of his beloved Russian proverbs to do it. Britain's Ernie Bevin grunted impatiently as Vishinsky hammered away: France's Robert Schuman fidgeted in his chair. But Dean Acheson, knowing that Vishinsky was talking-and had to talk-for the record, coolly waited till the Russian had run down. Then he submitted a proposal for settling the Berlin dispute...
Russia's Andrei Vishinsky was all unaccustomed smiles, good humor and friendliness during the first three days of the Big Four meeting in Paris. The mood carried over into the working week's one big social interlude-a state dinner given by French President Vincent Auriol for 40 top delegates and their wives. A military quartet played Debussy. Everybody wore evening clothes except Vishinsky, who showed up in a dark blue lounge suit. One of his aides apologized: "We worked so hard up to the last minute, the Minister had time only to change his shirt...
...Greece, where the Red guerrillas were farther than ever from victory, Russia had taken a step toward liquidating a losing commitment: in talks with the Americans at Lake Success, Russia's Andrei Gromyko had tried to negotiate a cease-fire and general settlement for Greece. The West coolly declared that the proper place for further negotiations was U.N., that the Greek civil war could be "settled" only after the Communists stopped supplying the Greek rebels...