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...last week where it left off last December: searching, with little faith and less hope, for a formula to end the Korean war. Asked to pose for the conventional opening-day pictures, the new chief U.S. delegate, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., refused to shake hands with Russia's Andrei Vishinsky. "Certainly not," he snapped. "Don't you understand? There's been a change of administration in Washington...
...glittering, imposing or sinister figures who descend on Manhattan when the United Nations General Assembly convenes, the Soviet Union's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky usually attracts the most attention. But on opening day last week, Vishinsky had to yield the spotlight to a strong-jawed newcomer from the Caribbean: fabulous Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 61, who since 1930 has run the lush, green little Dominican Republic like a private plantation, piling up wealth by the tens of millions and crushing all opposition with iron ruthlessness. Trujillo had left his brother Héctor in charge at home and taken...
...Israeli minister in Moscow was summoned before Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky and handed an angry note. "Malefactors with the obvious connivance of the police engineered [the] explosion," it said. "It is quite obvious . . . that the declarations and apologies of the Israeli government ... are a falsehood aimed at covering up." The conclusion: "The Soviet government . . . breaks off relations with the Israeli government...
...relationship that began in 1948, when the Russians were second only to the U.S. in championing the creation of the state of Israel. "We know that you are largely dependent on the help of American Jewry and that you must remain friendly with the U.S.," Andrei Gromyko once told Sharett at Lake Success. "That we don't mind, so long as it doesn't make you unfriendly...
...line. He was rewarded by a visit to Moscow for Stalin's birthday in 1950, a high Polish decoration only last month for having signed away to Poland all German territory east of the Oder-Neisse rivers, and a congratulatory telegram only a few weeks ago from Andrei Vishinsky...