Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German police a fortnight ago, two former Vichy officials were arrested by the French police last week. When ex-Sports Director Jean Borotra and unsuccessful General Maxime ("They have given me a disaster") Weygand got to Paris, their first stop was the Ministry of the Interior. There a police commissar and three inspectors arrested them as "dangerous to national security...
Viacheslav Molotov's dinner for Ed Stettinius and Anthony Eden had gone off splendidly. The Foreign Commissar had stuffed his guests with food and drink. A trifle reluctantly, they had let him have what he wanted-news pictures, for Soviet consumption, of all three drinking toasts together in San Francisco. The hour was late, all was chummy good will when Molotov remarked that at last he could tell the others what had happened to those Poles...
...stormy night session, Eden took the lead in telling off the Commissar. Sullen and embarrassed, Molotov fought back as best he could. Afterward, in a tone of pained restraint, Stettinius and Eden asked the Soviet Government to account immediately and fully for the whereabouts (and safety) of the "prominent Polish democratic leaders" under arrest, and halted the Big Three's negotiations for broadening the Warsaw Government. In effect the Yalta agreement to agree on a new government for Poland was suspended...
...radio communication with Moscow. Some of the delegation lived aboard, and they presumably had a supply of their national food and drink. But the refreshments were incidental. Thanks to Russian secrecy about the ship, and the press's failure to check, tongues were clacking furiously when Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov arrived by plane from Washington...
...breathed. A punctilious Russian who spoke English paused and set her right. The Commissar had said: "You are very kind...