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named a vice commissar of Foreign Affairs, Andrei Januari Vishinsky, to be their representative on the Inter-Allied Mediterranean Commission in Algiers. Minister Harold MacMillan will represent the British, and presumably Robert Murphy or his successor as Civil Affairs Adviser to General Eisenhower will sit for the U.S. As War and the Working Class understands it, the Commission will not only supervise the carrying out of the Italian armistice but discuss terms for other satellites who may wish to quit. At Russia's request a representative of the French National Committee will be asked to join. It will...
...Power Preparations. Despite Russia's doubts about "premature discussion of controversial issues," Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Ivan Maisky, popular former Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, had returned to London last week to meet with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U.S. Ambassador John Winant. Their talks would prepare an agenda for a conference among Foreign Commissar Molotov, Foreign Secretary Eden, Secretary of State Hull. Then, according to the urgent schedule, would come the meeting of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin...
Correspondent Frederick Kuh of the Chicago Sun has good sources in London. Last week he cabled: "Premier Stalin has now formally agreed to Soviet participation in a tri-power conference with the U.S.A. and Great Britain. Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov is understood to have communicated this decision to Admiral William H. Standley and to Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, the U.S. and British Ambassadors in Moscow, this week, evidently in reply to a proposal from Quebec...
Parallel? Joseph Stalin certainly knew that Churchill and Roosevelt would consider the parallel with 1939: May 3 - Maxim Litvinoff was replaced as Foreign Commissar...
...Alexander Yakovlev cut his teeth on trainers before turning to fighters. His proudest brain child is the YAK, a cannon-armed, partly plywood, 400-mile-an-hour plane, which has consistently outfought the Messerschmitt. Practical Vice Commissar Yakovlev is manager of a huge aircraft plant, a major general...