Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the pact and the agreement had been accomplished during the incognito travels of a man known in London as "Mr. Smith," in Washington as "Mr. Brown." He was the Soviet Union's affable, square-dome Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, who reached London...
There was, for example, the comparatively petty problem of the Baltic States -Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. It has been an open secret in England that, as an earnest of Britain's sincerity, Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov had asked for British endorsement of Russia's title to the Baltic States (which had been Russian before 1918 as well as between June 1940 and June 1941). Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was presently embarrassed by a protest from a delegation of 20 ultra-Conservative M.P.s, headed by excitable Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, whose present job is aide...
...bitches here. Now just tell me what you did in Czecho-Slovakia." "Yes, your Satanic Majesty," said Heydrich, eagerly. He patted his trimly cut blond hair, moistened his lips and rubbed his hands. "You will be pleased at what I did. But, of course, my being named Gestapo Commissar General of all German Occupied Territory in May was only a promotion for what I had done before." The Devil pawed at the sulphurous earth with a cloven hoof. At last he said: "Go ahead then; start from the beginning." "Well, I killed my first man," Heydrich said, "when...
...Moscow radio broadcast that Japanese property in the Soviet Union had been placed under an alien-property commissar-but the Kremlin promptly denied this...
...high time the President found his man. Laurence A. Steinhardt returned from Moscow to the U.S. in November, was appointed to the vitally important post of Ankara, Turkey. In Washington is the U.S.S.R.'s highest-powered diplomat, Maxim Litvinoff, onetime Foreign Commissar, onetime Delegate to the League of Nations. Joseph Stalin was waiting for something equally handsome...