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Designers Sergei Iliushin and Alexandr Yakovlev, both major generals and Heroes of Socialist Labor; Aleksei I. Shakhurin, the People's Commissar for the Aviation Industry; and Marshal Alexandr Novikov...
Best-known member of the new committee: Wanda Wasilewska, best-selling Soviet novelist (The Rainbow) and wife of Alexander Korneichuk, until recently the Soviet Ukraine's Commissar of Foreign Affairs...
...made ready to return to the U.S. and his Polish-American parishioners at Springfield, Mass.* But first, as a volunteer Polish-Catholic emissary to the U.S.S.R., he had several things to do. Back to the Kremlin he went for a second two-hour talk with Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. They were, he said, "two great men." The talks, he said, produced "results beyond my expectations...
...Moscow theater, at 10 o'clock one night, Father Orlemanski was tapped on the shoulder, told to go to the Kremlin. There, for two hours, he was closeted with Premier Joseph Stalin, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Next Morning, the Communist Party's Pravda splashed a photograph across its front page: beaming Stalin, flanked by beaming Molotov, beaming Father Orlemanski (see cut). If Russia gasped that day, it had a good excuse: this was the first time Atheist Stalin had been photographed with a Catholic priest...
With categoric correctitude, Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov called in the foreign press. He wanted the world to know: 1) that the Red Army had gone beyond Soviet frontiers for the first time since the Germans attacked in June 1941; 2) that the Kremlin had taken pains to inform London and Washington of the step in advance...