Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Propaganda & Charm. Humorously the Soviet Commissar described his conferences with President Roosevelt as "an effort to make some propaganda between us," adding with a twinkle "President Roosevelt submitted me to a kind of religious propaganda, and I in my turn tried to persuade him of the soundness of certain principles in the will of a famous American, Stephen Girard, who thought it best to exclude all ecclesiastical activities from the college which he founded in Philadelphia. Although we hardly succeeded in convincing one another, I fully enjoyed the President's way of discussing things, and I still feel myself...
...Rome. Of all places Commissar Litvinoff chose the city of Pope Pius XI and of Benito Mussolini as his next destination. Just before sailing from Manhattan on the crack Italian liner Conte de Savoía he lost his hat twice in a wild mêlée of Communist sympathizers and autograph hunters, retrieved it a second time with the merry cry, ''Ah-at last I have caught your American tempo...
...Michail Ivanovich," prompted Commissar Rykov, "tell us about...
...Michail Ivanovich," jogged Commissar Rykov, "about the Second Five-Year Plan...
Turks called them good-humoredly "Soviet Cinderellas." recalled that they were all dressed in dark, nondescript suits of no recognizable fashion when they landed at Istanbul with their eminent Soviet husbands, chubby War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, ferocious-whiskered Cavalry General Budenny and jovial Commissar of Education Bubnov...