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Paulina Karpovskaya Zhemchuzhina, wife of Russian Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, acted as a judge at a Moscow fashion show. The no-fuss-&-feathers prizewinners were designs suitable for mass production...
...fact that the talks were still going on this week represented a considerable gain. For Andrei Vishinsky, the mild-mannered, tough-minded Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, had previously played a lone hand in Bucharest, ignoring the Allied Commission and dealing directly with young King Mihai. Perhaps Joseph Stalin needed time to bring his bureaucracy into line with the Yalta doctrine, just as Franklin Roosevelt had needed time to bring his abstentionist State Department into line with the new U.S. policy of responsibility in Europe...
...Three committee appointed at Yalta - U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov - failed to agree in , its first three meetings. But the talks continued: after Yalta, Moscow was in no mood to brush off the U.S. and Britain...
...start, the negotiators discovered that the Yalta agreement to broaden the Warsaw Government meant one thing to Molotov, another to Clark Kerr and Harriman. The Commissar insisted that the agreement required just a few changes in the Government, all subject to veto by the present Warsaw Poles. The U.S. and British Ambassadors would have none of this. They insisted on a complete over haul, keeping elements of the present Gov ernment as a nucleus but also including Poland's non-Communist parties on an equal basis. From these extremes, the negotiators labored toward compromise...
...Siberia, Commissar "Mike" Kalugin ("strictly Tammany" said another U.S. correspondent) walked down a factory assembly line "talking to the workers, a wave of the hand to this one, a pat on the back for that - a ward-boss patrolling his precinct." But to Reporter White's Kansan eyes all these familiar people seemed to be living in "a moderately well run penitentiary, which kept [them] working hard and provided a bunk to sleep in, three daily meals and enough clothes to keep [them] warm." It was a prison whose "walls were covered with posters explaining that freedom and justice...