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...Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov met the Iranian Ambassador in Moscow and expressed surprise at reports of such goings-on by Red Army troops...
...Molotov's day. The fact that the Foreign Commissar was chosen to make the anniversary address to Communist Party leaders showed how important to Russia was the world outside...
...experience is not confined to foreign affairs; a crack administrator, he was Premier for eleven years until Stalin took the post over in 1941. The fact that Molotov's name followed just after Stalin on a recent official list of Soviet leaders was a sign that the Foreign Commissar might return to the Premiership. C| Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, 48, Red Army Chief of Staff (1943-45), signed the anniversary Order of the Day as Stalin's deputy. He left his planning job to acquire glory as the conqueror of Konigsberg in East Prussia and as commander...
...week their dispatches had gone through the Soviet censors-uncensored, and fast. Maybe their censorship protest (TIME. Nov. 12)-which Viacheslav M. Molotov had brushed aside as "not solid"-had done some good, after all. The Associated Press was also inclined to credit a strange interlude at the Foreign Commissar's big reception on Nov. 7. At midnight Molotov strolled over to bulky, balding APman Eddy Gilmore...
...arrived in Moscow four months, ago, after wartime service as a lieutenant on a Canadian corvette on Atlantic convoy. Brooks Atkinson, an old censor fighter, helped polish the protest. Every member of the Association, including Anna Louise Strong, approved the unanimous protest, which was addressed and sent to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. Excerpts...