Word: commissariats
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...London in his stead goes youthful (39), fair-haired Fedor Gusev, former head of British Empire matters in the Foreign Commissariat and lately first Russian Minister to Canada. A graduate of Leningrad University, he entered the Foreign Office in 1937, now speaks fluent English...
Diplomatically, Russia and the democracies had come a pleasurable full circle. Franklin Roosevelt had squinted up his eyes, looked all the way across at darkest Russia, and had seen a church; Joseph Stalin squinted back and saw a picket line. In response to this recognition, the Soviet Foreign Commissariat appointed as Ambassador to the U.S. none other than Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, the bourgeois Communist, torchbearer for disarmament, handmaiden of collective security...
...World War II approached, Russia withdrew into an isolation even deeper than the previous one. Maxim Litvinoff resigned from the Foreign Commissariat and his successor made the marriage of convenience with Germany. Russia began to aggress, Britain and the U.S. to object. To Russia, Britain and the U.S. became known as the imperialist nations...
...Jacob Djugashvili, son. of Joseph Stalin, was nobody. No one in the foreign embassies in Moscow ever met him; all they heard was tenuous gossip: Jacob secretly running off with a poor seamstress . . . Jacob working in a factory to boost morale . . . Jacob not doing; very well at the Commissariat for Heavy Industry. Finally he disappeared into the Army...
...alarm. Ovakimian growled at the Soviet consul general, who treated him with vast respect (and posted a $25,000 bond with $50 and $100 bills), identified himself first as a buyer for Amtorg Trading Corp., next as representative of the "chemical trust," last as an agent of "the Commissariat." Around the Amtorg office he was always a feared and mysterious figure who came and went as he pleased, was reported to have studied in U.S. technical schools, and was believed by subordinates to be the CPU's industrial chief in the U.S. Whatever he had been, there...