Word: commissariats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, in Tihua, the Russians maintain a busy consulate general, a branch of their Foreign Trade Commissariat, the Sino-Soviet Aviation Corp., a branch of the Sino-Soviet Cultural Association, a school and a hospital. On Sundays, most of Tihua's Russians (more than 200 in all) go up the Urumchi River for an isolated picnic. In northwest Sinkiang and the western outpost of Kashgar there are even more Russians. Sinkiang workmen are mining valuable wolfram for them at Fuwen; others are tapping the rich oil pools at Wusu...
...search of the sweetest possible name for its secret police, the Kremlin has given that dread body its fourth title since December 1917. Once the CHEKA (Extraordinary Commission), then GPU (State Political Management), 1922-34, then NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), 1934-46, it is now MGB (Ministry of State Security). Said the proverb-loving Russians on hearing the news: Khren ne slashche redki ("Horseradish is not sweeter than radish...
...experts made their choices. In due course the favored designs will be produced for the millions by the Commissariat of Light Industry...
When Mikolajczyk and Stanczyk arrived in a British Lancaster, they were greeted by Ambassadors Harriman and Clark Kerr, and a lone representative of the Foreign Commissariat. Said Harriman in a murmured aside to Clark Kerr: "Then you'll follow?" Arm-in-arm with Mikolajczyk and Stanczyk, Harriman entered his long black car. Clark Kerr followed...
...secretive, refuses to talk with foreigners. Until recently he was accounted a nonentity in the Moscow diplomatic picture. However, there are indications that his status has altered. When Marshal Tito visited Moscow, the Mongolian envoy was invited to greet him at the airport by the protocol department of the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs and was introduced to the Yugoslav leader by Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov...