Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conscious humor of the week was furnished by beetle-browed little Foreign Vice Commissar Solomon Lozovsky, that colorful Old Bolshevik who holds the record of having escaped from prison more times than any living Communist. New Spokesman for the U.S.S.R., in a press conference he referred to the "shocking fact" that Albania had declared war on the Soviet Union. This step, said he, was taken under the direction of "Italy's Al Capone, known as Mussolini." As for the German claims of mighty victories, said Funnyman Lozovsky, "they remind me of the story of the hunter who shouted...
...Washington, Soviet Ambassador Oumansky was closeted frequently with U.S. Under Secretary of State Welles. But in Moscow, Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov had no appointments with U.S. Ambassador Steinhardt. The onetime New York attorney, who had been doing foreign chores for the Administration ever since he campaigned for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, and who had kept his fingers wisely crossed on Russo-German friendship since last fall, continued his enforced policy of keeping his eyes open though the Kremlin doors remained closed...
Europe's two stanchest neutrals remained stanchly neutral: Switzerland and Turkey. Turkey apparently accepted Russia's denial that Foreign Commissar Molotov had asked Hitler for bases on the Dardanelles. To a French request for passage of troops to Syria, Turkey said...
...attack was that smart Joseph Stalin had outsmarted himself. Russia, whose pact with Germany enabled Hitler to start the war, now felt the full fury of the war. Adolf Hitler's proclamation was full of accusation of Russian double-dealing and Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov retorted in kind. The accusations were unimportant. In the charges of neither side was there even a tone of surprise. They had never trusted each other. In the timetable of German-Russian relations since the Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939 (see col. 3) could be read the progressive failure...
Joseph Stalin did not even issue a proclamation; he was as silent as the grave. The talking was taken over by those two good friends, Foreign Commissar Molotov and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Molotov exhorted the Russian people to fight against "the clique of bloodthirsty Fascist rulers." Ribbentrop: "Bolshevist Moscow is about to stab National Socialist Germany in the back while she is engaged in a struggle for her existence." Before this war ended, either Stalin or Hitler would no longer be a great dictator...