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sends out renewal notices to subscribers when their current subscriptions are about to end. A recent mailing of such letters included one sent to Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Russian Foreign Minister, whose subscription expires next month. The people in TIME International's circulation department were struck by the overtones of this letter, which said, in part...
Lissome Anny Gould, a Parisian nightclub singer, thought some U.N. publicity might be exciting. While press photographers stood by, she waited last Friday on the steps of the Palais de Chaillot, ready to present her pet dove to the first U.N. delegate to appear. Johnny on the spot was Andrei Vishinsky. As shutters snapped, Anny stage-smiled and offered the dove to Vishinsky. "A symbol," said she, "of the peace we all want...
Silent Laughter. Inside the meeting place of the General Assembly, after fondling the ruffled dove for photographers, Andrei Vishinsky gave the bird back to an aide, strode up to the speaker's podium to eat some crow. No one, including his bosses in Moscow, had been much amused by his laughing dismissal of the West's disarmament proposals the week before. In Pravda's account of the speech, the laughed-all-night passage was cut out. Vishinsky prefaced his second try by trying to minimize his first: "I merely made some cursory remarks at the time...
...could hardly sleep all last night," Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky told the U.N. General Assembly. "I could not sleep because I kept laughing." He bent his white-thatched terrier's head over a typed manuscript, then looked up with a sharp-toothed grin. "Really, even from this rostrum ... I cannot restrain my laughter." There were a few appreciative giggles from Reds in the galleries, but otherwise Vishinsky laughed alone as he gave Russia's answer to the West's dis armament proposals (see NATIONAL AF FAIRS...
...clamor, the noise > that hurt Russia most came from Andrei Vishinsky himself. "His laugh," wrote the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick, "may have done more to undermine Russian peace propaganda than a whole battery of counterpropaganda . . . For nothing he said or will say to the assembled nations is so revealing and reverberating as that laugh. It goes echoing through the corridors of the U.N. . . . like the snicker of an evil spirit. Perhaps it will echo down the corridors of time. Lesser things than a laugh at the hopes and fears of humanity have brought down...