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Word: commissars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he came to England again, in 1936, Maxim Litvinoff got an audience with the King and all the amenities. Papasha-and the Soviet Union-had climbed to respectability. As Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs (1920-30) and then as Commissar, Litvinoff had cut through the "barbed-wire fence" which France's Clemenceau had persuaded the West to raise around Russia. He sold most of the Western world on the proposition that Communism was able & willing to cooperate with the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Other Face | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Died. Maxim Litvinoff, 75, onetime Soviet Foreign Commissar (1929-39) and Ambassador to the U.S. (1941-43); in Moscow (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 14, 1952 | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...Itten went to Berlin's Soviet sector. There he solemnly handed his box of trinkets (i.e., priceless Communist relics) over to East Germany's State Art Commission, watched grunting Germans load his precious statues on to a Swiss truck. An "exemplary cultural exchange," announced the art commissar grandly. Dr. Itten did not crack a smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Trinkets for Treasures | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...Korea have generally been closemouthed, U.N. interrogation officers wanted to know why Fan was being so talkative. Fan was glad to explain. Last May, he found three Chinese WACs in the division to which he was assigned as "entertainment officer" (i.e., a job somewhere between U.S.O. director and political commissar). "One," he said, "was a beautiful young girl named Toy. We fell in love. It was not at all bad being so far away from home under those conditions. Then the division commander began to notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENEMY: Stolen Toy | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...served in Poland and Germany with or under him. Their picture of Vasily is not quite so heroic. Vasily Iosifovich Dzhugashvili Stalin was bora in 1921 or 1922, probably in Moscow (no one is quite sure). Lenin was still alive. Joseph Stalin, in his middle 40s, was then Commissar of Nationalities and engaged in a bitter and bloody civil war. His first wife, Katerina Svanidze, had died four years before, and Stalin had taken as his second wife his secretary, Nadezhda Allilueva, the young daughter of an old-line Bolshevik who had once sheltered him from Czarist police. A year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Father's Little Watchman | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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