Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thank You, Mr. Molotov." Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was somewhat nervous when correspondents entered a room paneled in Karelian birch. He held a papirossa (cigaret) near its lighted end, and the smoke curled about him as he read an announcement...
Then one fine sunny day the telephone rang in Russia's Athens legation. It was the Greek Press Agency, asking which Soviet vice commissar of war had just com mitted suicide. Barmine did not know the answer but he foresaw the worst...
...Clay and Britain's Lieut. General Sir Ronald M. Weeks. An official statement said "useful decisions [were] reached in an atmosphere of complete and mutual understanding." Correspondents passed the word along that Marshal Zhukov, hitherto inhibited by the presence of the Kremlin's strong-arm troubleshooter, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky, had received more discretionary authority and was using it to speed up cooperation. Soon it was announced that...
...four-motored plane from Chungking came down at Moscow's airport. China's Premier T. V. Soong was the first to alight. He wore a blue suit, but not his horn-rimmed spectacles. Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov greeted him. The foreign colony stood by, including U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. A guard of honor snapped to attention. A band played the national anthems of China and Russia...
...Premier Peter Groza, a chunky, wealthy man addicted to pastel tweeds and spats, relied heavily on Soviet Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky...