Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has relieved Assistant People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs Comrade Litvinoff of his post as Ambassador and Envoy Plenipotentiary of the U.S.S.R. in the United States. Comrade Andrei Gromyko has been appointed Ambassador and Envoy Plenipotentiary of the U.S.S.R. in the United States." Ever since the Soviet revolution Maxim Litvinoff has been the stoutest Russian advocate of close friendship and collaboration with Britain and the U.S. And the significance of Litvinoff's removal was not isolated: only last month Ivan Maisky, warm admirer of the British...
...Russian Ambassador in London and lately dean of the diplomatic corps at the Court of St. James's, came a puzzling promotion last week. Three weeks after a routine return to Moscow to bring his superiors up to date, it was announced that he had become a Vice Commissar of foreign affairs, would not return to London...
...Actress Katina Paxinou would walk away with any less leaden show. Her hawk-fine face, wallowing walk, Goyaesque style and Noah Beery laugh assure her a rich future, if only she can find roles spacious enough. As the Soviet journalist, Karkov, Konstantin Shayne makes his characterization of a political commissar the most electrifying bit in years...
Died. Dmitri Hitch Ulyanov, 69, physician, onetime revolutionary, youngest brother of the late Nikolai Lenin; in Gorky, Russia. He was twice jailed before the Communist Revolution made him Vice Commissar of the Crimean Soviet Republic...
...Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, in an address to U.S. Ambassador William H. Standley, said: "Let us remember that millions of people who have made count less sacrifices live in profound hope . . . of a combined Allied offensive...