Word: gorbatov
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...that business. Facing each other across an oblong table in the large, high-windowed council room were youngish, earnest American Major General James Gavin; tall, leathery British Major General E. P. Nares; fattish French Major General Geoffrey de Beauchesne; and an able, hard-hitting Russian, Colonel General Alexander Gorbatov. Each had an interpreter at his side. Around the room sat some 30 experts and advisers. Major question on the agenda: Berlin's food supply...
Relations between Russia's Colonel General Alexander V. Gorbatov and U.S. Major General Floyd L. Parks are, in General Parks's words, "more than cordial-we've become real friends." Gorbatov was inclined to be a little stiff at first. Parks, a Southerner, soon charmed him. Gorbatov took the first drink of his life at the first meeting of the Kommandantur. Parks explained that he, too, was a nondrinker, that his doctor allowed him only a little white wine. A few hours later a Russian soldier appeared at Parks's house with a case of Rhine...
...Dahlem villa Colonel Frank L. Howley, military governor of Berlin's U.S. zone, threw a party for 100 Allied officers. The Russians, unaccustomed to cocktail protocol, drank on & on, stayed on & on-but no dinner was served. Tactful U.S. interpreters finally hinted that the party was over. General Gorbatov politely shook hands with all his fellow-guests, then led away the puzzled Russians...
Cordiality & Cocktails. Next day the Kommandantur held its first meeting, at Red Army headquarters. Russia's Colonel General Alexander Gorbatov presided. Other representatives: for the U.S., Major General Floyd L. Parks; for Britain, Major General Lewis O. Lyne; for France, Major General Geoffrey de Beauchesne. Said the BBC: "Cordiality prevailed...
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