Word: fedorer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight weeks ago Bulgaria bowed to the Red Army after 99 hours of war. In Moscow last week, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Petko Stainov signed an armistice with Russia, Britain, the U.S. The Allied commission was headed by Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin, who signed for Russia. Lieut. General J. A. H. Gammell signed for the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. In Moscow Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin had agreed on the joint signature. This was the first down dividend on the new Anglo-Russian good will. But Bulgaria was to remain under the Soviet High Command for military purposes...
Waiters brought on cold ham in aspic and Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden brought up Poland. His toast: "To Mr. Gusev [Fedor Gusev, Soviet Ambassador to Britain]. One night he shared a flying bomb with the so-called London Poles. All of us hoped this common experience might bring understanding between Mr. Gusev and Mr. Mikolajczyk [Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, of the Polish Government in Exile] which would bode well for the postwar world." All of the 40 guests drank to Gusev...
...Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, Soviet Ambassador Fedor Gusev, Britain's Sir William Strang...
Meeting in the Center. Along the Black Sea flank of the funnel raced General Fedor Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army. A huge breach opened in the Nazi lines. A column sickled westward into the funnel's center, joined troops of Malinovsky's army. Kishinev, pogrom-haunted seat of Bessarabia, was stormed. Below the city the Russians closed a noose around 60,000 Germans. Then the Third Ukrainian sped down the coast. At week's end it stood deep within the sprawling, muddy Danube Delta, held the old Turkish fortress town of Ismail, swept into Galati, eastern...
...months the three men had been discussing endlessly in the big room at Lancaster House in London. U.S. Ambassador John Winant, Russian Ambassador Fedor Gusev and Sir William Strang, the three members of the European Advisory Commission, had held scores of meetings, examined hundreds of proposals, dictated thousands of words of notes, memoranda, dispatches. But to the eagerly watching world the three men seemed no nearer than ever to accomplishing their task-the drawing up of surrender terms for defeated Germany. London's well-informed Economist suspected that the Allies had failed to agree on a joint policy...