Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most significant straws in the wind blew down from Moscow. To the often-asked question of "How much of an ally is Soviet Russia of Nazi Germany?" the answer came last week. "No ally at all." Dictator Joseph Stalin and Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov diplomatically kept mum on the subject, but the Kremlin's alter ego, the Communist International, was encouraged to handle the Nazis just about as roughly as French and British capitalists...
Inside the Embassy, recently accredited Soviet Ambassador Alexander A. Shkvartsev, onetime textile engineer and said to have been former private secretary of Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, was host at as brilliant a reception as ever celebrated on foreign soil an anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, until very recently a black day on the Nazi calendar. Although the U. S. S. R. has never rated as a gourmet's paradise, diplomats the world over long ago learned to expect at Soviet Embassy parties as tasty spreads as ever graced a Tsar's table. In hungry Germany the Embassy...
...Moscow went home with corns and cool heels on its diplomatic feet from having patiently attended the Soviet Foreign Office, but with considerable pride in its heart in not having yet knuckled under to the U.S.S.R. After four days without so much as seeing either Joseph Stalin or Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, but having made it clear that there were some things that could not be surrendered, even by the weak to the strong, the delegates left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently broke down on Russia's demands for a naval base at or near Finland...
Blithely letting it teeter, Shaw shifts his base and conducts a League-of-Nations trial of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, with a British diplomat and a Soviet Commissar to whoop things up. In fantastic costumes and with grand-opera flourishes, truculent "Battler" (Maurice Colbourne), swaggering "Bombardone" and arrogant "Flanco" engage in a vicious dialectical dogfight, snapping at the judge and at one another like so many paradoxhunds...
...emperor of the universe?" He turns to the diplomat, taunting him that England will not fight. "Fight? We shall wipe you off the face of the earth!" He turns defiantly to them all: "I shall sweep through Poland like a hurricane." "Do so by all means, Comrade," coos the Commissar. "When you have finished, you will settle with me how much of it you may keep...