Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July an official Russian account of a Red Army meeting included this statement: The commissar read the decision of the Allies to open a second front in Europe...
Timoshenko kept his membership in the Party, held one of the high government offices when he was People's Commissar for Defense. Soon after Hitler invaded Russia, Stalin took the Commissar's title; Timoshenko returned to the field; the political commissars returned to the Red Army...
...Lavrenti Beria - "scholarly-looking, soft-spoken . . . who looks like a physician but whose innocent-sounding title. Commissar for Internal Affairs, means that he is the head of the NKVD [ex-Ogpu...
Because of censorship nothing was printed at the time about Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov's historic, incognito visit to England. TIME'S Correspondents Stephen & Lael Laird, cabled this description of the visit from London last week...
...Censor Byron Price congratulated the press on its "magnificent" performance in keeping mum about the six-day Washington visit of Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov—"news of very high importance . . . known to hundreds of newspapermen and broadcasters." (Only paper that talked was the tabloid Philadelphia News, which gossiped: "The talk in official Russian circles here is that Premier V. M. Molotov of Soviet Russia is in this country on a secret mission of vast importance.") Actually, while photographers waited at the White House to catch the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Molotov strolled slowly past them and not a camera clicked...