Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Very Poor Situation." Gorizia is headquarters for a regiment of the U.S. 91st Infantry Division, and is also a large Yugoslav military center. Later I went with other correspondents to see the Yugoslav commissar for Gorizia, whose offices were in the town's swankiest building. Ushered in with snappy saluting, we discovered an educated young man. However, when he learned the purpose of our visit-to get his reaction to the penetration of his lines-he quickly excused himself, and sent in eight bottles of beer. With the beer came an older, baldheaded, bug-eyed captain, who obviously...
...smoothed the way for a visit to the Kremlin by China's Acting Premier T. V. Soong and for a possible improvement in the increasingly chilly relations between Moscow and Chungking. Another report said Hurley was double-checking on Stalin's attitude toward the Chinese Communists (Foreign Commissar Molotov is once supposed to have dismissed the Yenan group as "margarine Communists...
Letters home from Russian soldiers told of Germans living in cellars and dugouts without light, food or water, and begging from the Red Army. People's Commissar of Foreign Trade Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan flew to Berlin and Dresden, reported these remedies last week...
...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...
Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Russia's sharp-eyed, correct Commissar for Foreign Affairs, was rated the top "glamor boy" of the San Francisco conference by Britain's pert Delegate Ellen Wilkinson, Labor M.P. Her one qualification: Molotov (unlike Britain's Eden and America's Stettinius) was not really very glamorous "to look...