Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusty file in the Kremlin, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikailovich Molotov last week fished a nine-month-old document. It was a note from nine Governments in Exile telling him about Nazi atrocities in Occupied Europe (no news) and Comrade Molotov had not bothered to answer it. But Comrade Molotov's chief, Joseph Stalin, had a special reason for wanting it answered...
...only pours oil into Russia's lap but has cradled many of Russia's top leaders. From Georgia, one of a multitude of small republics and autonomous regions in the Caucasus, Joseph Stalin went forth to power. Georgia also gave to Russia Grigory Ordzhonikidze, late great commissar of heavy industry, and Ordzhonikidze gave his name to the town at the junction of two highways. These and other native sons helped to make the Caucasus strong by granting the states autonomy within the Soviet Union. Last week their land and their wisdom were at stake as the Germans drew...
...have been given complete details of the situation as to men, arms and shipping, and to have still urged the action. Further, it was reported that at the time of the "urgent tasks" statement last June, the British-U.S. position had been the same; that Russian Foreign Commissar Molotov had known all about the reasons for it then, and after a conference of U.S. and British military men in London affirmed...
Married. Esther Carp, 28, niece of Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov; and Leo Seligman, 31, employe in a Bridgeport war plant; in Manhattan. In the mid-'30s her father, Sam Carp, now a Bridgeport realtor, was commissioned by Moscow to get two 75,000-ton battleships built for Russia in U.S. shipyards. He had a $100,000,000 authorization from Stalin but the deal fell through...
Concentrated in the hands of Joseph Stalin is more wartime authority, both political and military, than is wielded by any of his allies-President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill or Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. As Premier, Defense Commissar and Secretary of the Communist Party, Stalin is shouldered with domestic and international responsibilities which grow with each German step into Russia. Last week Stalin sought someone to share his burdens. As First Deputy Defense Commissar he chose a man who, until two years ago, was an unknown quantity to a non-Russian world: General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov...