Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever seen when service was started on a 25-mile narrow-gauge line connecting Ulan Bator Khoto with the country's only coal mine. Three years ago Dictator Joseph Stalin informed the world that the U. S. S. R. would tolerate no outside interference there, and Foreign Commissar Molotov dittoed these sentiments last...
...saying he means to put something off till tomorrow, the next day, for ten years. Seichas seemed to have taken over the leaden-footed Anglo-Soviet pact negotiations last week as talks between British special negotiator William Strang, British Ambassador Sir William Seeds and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dragged on day after day, added up, as far as the anxiously waiting world could see, to nothing...
Fortnight ago Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov frankly expressed his doubts about the sincerity of the British Government's desire to stop Adolf Hitler on all fronts. Last week, from the lips of highly placed British statesmen themselves, he had plenty of evidence to support these doubts...
...search for the culprit. A reward of 100,000 Czech crowns ($3,330) was offered for information leading to arrest of the killer. One thousand Czechs were arrested; an unnamed nurse, whom Czechs called a "great patriot," was questioned. The Czech mayor of Kladno was supplanted by a German commissar and, to cap it all, the Nazis levied a fine of 500,000 crowns ($16,650) on the district. Most of the money, they added, would be taken from Jews and "followers" of Eduard Benes, former President of Czecho-Slovakia...
Although feigning indifference, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy showed last week their pleasure at the temporary rebuff France and Britain got in Moscow. In London and Paris, it was said, Foreign Commissar Molotov's speech (and his note rejecting the British proposals which followed it) was a "disappointment," but they would try, try again. Apparently they were still trying as the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Cabinet with the approval of the French Cabinet, batted the ball back to the Russians, decided that offers of guarantees to Latvia, Estonia & Finland would be made only if those States asked...