Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advice by Moscow. For three weeks the Partisan National Liberation Committee had been busy creating, on paper, the new Yugoslavia. Twice Tito had flown to Moscow, conferred with Stalin and the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Viacheslav M. Molotov. Last week a plan for the reorganization of Yugoslavia was evolved...
...magnitude of the assault on Mrs. Luce by New Deal press and speakers was in ratio to the size of her attack on the New Deal. From Harold Ickes, whom she dismissed as "that prodigious bureaucrat with the soul of a meat ax and the mind of a commissar," all the way up to the President, she spared no New Dealer. No other Republican orator except Candidates Dewey and Bricker hit the President so hard, so often and before such large crowds. None spoke so sharply...
...immediate cause of the trouble. Iran's Premier Mohamed Said Maraghei was being briskly boiled in oil last week, and even the U.S. had been spattered with a few hot drops. The fire was lit by Sergei Kavtaradze, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, who presented Said with a Russian proposal for oil concessions in northern Iran (TIME, Oct. 30). Said said no, but Kavtaradze would not take no for an answer. From Teheran, where he lingered, he denounced the head of Iran's Cabinet. From afar the Russian press echoed his charges that Said was a Russophobe...
...Moreover, the Lublin Government was composed of political nonentities, scarcely known even in Poland, with no standing at all in the world. And they had been weakened by the recent resignation, as a result of the failure of Lublin's drastic land reforms (TIME, Sept. 25), of Agricultural Commissar Andrzej Witos...
Over this whole political picture hangs the great question mark of Russian policy. Most Rumanians have forgotten, or doubt, Foreign Commissar Molotov's declaration of last April that the Soviet Union has no territorial ambitions beyond its own frontiers, no intention of changing the social or political structures of other nations...