Word: gregori
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia entrusted the guidance of the East German Republic yesterday to a tight-slipped diplomat who pulled the strings for the Communist coup in Hungary after the war. Naming Gregori M. Pushkin chief of its diplomatic mission, the Soviet Union became the first power in the world to grant legal recognition to the nine day old state...
...afraid to ask for anything you want," they were told at the hotel, "even if it is bird's milk." Later, the travelers were taken to call on the Patriarch. There they met Archdeacon Gregori Antonenko and others of the Patriarch's entourage, went to see a nearby church which was functioning. Said Father Sergei: "There are some 34 churches now in Moscow, filled to capacity every Sunday. Young people, old people, everybody comes. But somehow Moscow is a crude village. All the time I was there I didn't see a single intelligent face...
...Gregori Fedorovitch Rezanov, the Soviet Union's first Minister to Colombia, got an unhappy welcome when he arrived at the Bogota airport. Because of a Foreign Office bungle, no Colombian dignitaries met him. Uninvited local Communists infested the airport, carried his baggage, muscled into his news pictures, acutely embarrassed Mr. Rezanov. The Bogotá press was generally cordial. Privately, Colombians wondered why the new Russian Legation had a staff of 34 while Colombia was represented at Moscow by a single, lonely Minister. Probable reason: the Soviet Union wants to train diplomats for use in other Latin American countries which...