Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their plans for the afternoon session, then drove to the handsome, Gothic, somewhat overpowering Spiridonovka House, where all the talks are being held.* The three ministers conferred through interpreters, called in the various experts of the staffs as they needed them. To the first full-length session Hull and Eden took their military advisers, respectively Major General John R. Deane and Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, thereby leading correspondents to the solemn, if obvious, conclusion that matters of military consequence stood high on the agenda. After some delay the Russians disclosed that Molotov was being advised by no lesser personages...
...fourth night Premier Joseph Stalin, dressed in the uniform of a Red Army Marshal, received Eden and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. There was a mild flurry back in the U.S.: could it be a snub? But Mountaineer Hull, ever sensitive about his honor and dignity, was unruffled; he knew of the meeting in advance, four nights later had his own audience with Stalin...
...Next day's Stockholm rumor, that the Germans had been gunning for Anthony Eden on the plane, made no sense; Eden's arrival in Moscow had been announced to the world four days before the attack...
...Handsome, dark-eyed Andrei Andreyev, who looks something like Eden, heads the U.S.S.R.'s Parliament, the Supreme Soviet. A peasant's son, he became a munitions worker, joined the Bolsheviks during World War I. His first key post was as head of the party's Control Commission, which keeps the Reds on their toes, purges those who do not conform. Andreyev's mind is intelligent and subtle. Close to Stalin, he is definitely one of Russia's up-&-coming...
...London, he was known as "Mr. Smith." In Eden's room on May 26, Molotov signed (with Churchill's pen) a 20-year pact which is still the basis of Anglo-Soviet Union relations...