Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet diplomat, with a brilliant record in Afghanistan, Turkey, Germany and League of Nations wrangles. He was for years the only Jew in Germany permitted to keep Aryan housemaids -by personal dispensation of the Führer. Ambassador Suritz was not "purged" when his intimate friend Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff fell from Joseph Stalin's favor, but few Bolsheviks close to a fallen bigwig survive for long. Last week the Moscow radio significantly broke a story that began the middle of last month when Edouard Daladier, then French Premier, sent his Moscow Chargé d'Affa...
Since the Dictator lost his second wife (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932) he has "reverted to the Oriental type." The Dictator is from semi-Oriental Georgia, famed for such other torchbearers as the Marrying Mdivanis. First of his friends was the sister of handsome onetime Heavy Industry Commissar Lazar Kaganovich...
...Moscow, Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt opened the door of the U. S. Embassy a little-enough to let citizens see, within its secrecy-shrouded interior, that he had conferred long with Premier-Foreign Commissar Molotov just as peace moves got under way in earnest, that he had held an unpublicized reception for the Finnish negotiators when they arrived-all giving rise to a report that the negotiations had been held on the conveniently neutral ground of the U. S. Embassy...
About the same time the U. S. came on the scene. U. S. Ambassador to Russia Laurence A. Steinhardt conferred for an hour at the Kremlin with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, and talked with other diplomats...
...Kovacs added that the Nazis dare not send tank cars over this line, are "afraid that the oil will be kept in Russia." So they get oil from Rumania by a roundabout rail route through Hungary or up the Danube, now frozen. He was told that former Soviet Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin has said: "The help Germany will get from Russia is much smaller than the British or the Germans themselves think...