Word: gromyko
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...occupation of Iran, but the Soviets reneged. They increased their forces and set up autonomous regimes in the northwestern provinces of Azerbaijan and Kurdistan. In a little-known episode of nuclear diplomacy that Jackson said he had heard from Harry Truman, the President summoned Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko to the White House. Truman told Gromyko that Soviet troops should evacuate Iran within 48 hours-or the U.S. would use the new superbomb that it alone possessed. We're going to drop it on you,'" Jackson quoted Truman as saying. "They moved in 24 hours...
Only Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher proved truly resolute. She announced that Britain would stop supplying the Soviets with high technology, would refuse to negotiate new trade agreements with them and would suspend visits by Soviet officials, including Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. In private she scoffed at the continental allies as "bloody wets," meaning, roughly, drips...