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Russia's Andrei Vishinsky, just a few feet away on Acheson's left, listened intently on the new plastic earphones that look like a hearing aid and scribbled endlessly, his face impassive. Once, he leaned over to the Ukrainian delegate, jutted out his chin and laughed...
...prisoner issue; it was not designed to do more at this point. Delegates rushed forward to congratulate Secretary Acheson. Australia's External Affairs Minister Richard Casey cried out: "One of the greatest speeches I ever listened to." The Netherlands' Daniel von Balluseck echoed: "Splendid!" Said Andrei Vishinsky: "No comment...
...Acheson talked, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky followed the English text closely and three times underscored Acheson's remarks. The underscorings: "The aggressor [in Korea] now counts for victory upon those of faint heart who would grow weary of the struggle . . . We shall fight on as long as is necessary to stop the aggression. We shall stop fighting when an armistice on just terms has been achieved . . . The Communists have so far rejected reasonable terms for an armistice...
...powerful Presidium (25 full members, eleven alternates) to replace the defunct Politburo (TIME, Sept. 1). No. 1 on the list of Presidium members: Joseph Stalin. Chief aides: Molotov, Malenkov, Beria. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, His Master's Voice at the U.N. (see above), got a pat on the back: he was included as an alternate member of the Presidium (his Menshevik past has previously kept him from higher honors). Politburocrat Andrei Andreev, onetime boss of collective farms, was not on the list...
...contempt in [Malenkov's] eye as he watches older men putting themselves through absurd and elaborate contortions to reconcile what is with what was supposed to be. His is the world that is." Apparently he did not mind being considered a heretic by such passionately doctrinaire Marxists as Andrei Zhdanov (touted frequently in the mid-'40s as Stalin's heir apparent). In fact, Malenkov put his heresy to the test in a 1946 party address: "We have people, rightly called bookworms, who have quotations from Marx and Engels ready for every occasion . . . Instead of laboring to think...