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...brought 38 other guests. They were bound to Spiridonovka House for a four-hour, 14-course lunch with Stalin. Stalin wore his simplest Marshal's uniform-no decorations. Churchill wore his uniform as honorary colonel of a Sussex regiment-four banks of decorations. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Averill Harriman, British Ambassador Archibald Clark Kerr were in mufti...
...that?" It was Prime Minister Winston Churchill on his second wartime visit to Moscow. He had suddenly swooped down on the big Moscow airfield with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and high British military men. Five planes brought the 50 Britons. On hand to meet them were Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, Foreign Vice Commissar Ivan Maisky, high Russian military...
...Foreign Commissar Molotov walked in briskly at six minutes past eight. He sat down and spread out a typewritten paper. To Moscow's 40-odd foreign correspondents he said: "I should like to inform you gentlemen of the decisions taken with regard to the Government of Bulgaria...
...Foreign Commissar looked tired. He read in a voice without expression: "For more than three years Bulgaria has been in effect helping Germany in its war against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Government took account of the fact that, being a small country...
...seven days before the conference was to open, Russia asked for a week's delay. This was Blow No. 1. A little later, Blow No. 2 fell. The Russian representative was named. He was neither of the two men U.S. and British diplomats had expected, neither the Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinoff, nor Andrei Vishinsky. He was youngish (35) Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, who holds his first important post as Ambassador to the U.S., and who is only a little less inexperienced than Ed Stettinius...