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...relationship that began in 1948, when the Russians were second only to the U.S. in championing the creation of the state of Israel. "We know that you are largely dependent on the help of American Jewry and that you must remain friendly with the U.S.," Andrei Gromyko once told Sharett at Lake Success. "That we don't mind, so long as it doesn't make you unfriendly...
Scapegoats & Decoys. Gromyko's easy line did not last: for one thing, it does not suit Soviet policy to have any group of her people looking outside Russia for their homeland. Secondly, the Russians were disappointed at the slenderness of Communist strength in Israel, which remained small despite immigration from Eastern Europe. So the 2,500,000 Jews behind the Iron Curtain have become scapegoats and decoys for the big Communist purges now underway. How many will die or disappear, no one can guess: western eyes can only grub for stray hints in the Soviet press...
...royalty and otherwise lowered the tone of society, took some of the luster off Grace Vanderbilt's crown. High taxes and World War II dealt her even harder blows. The famed Vanderbilt hospitality was offered to some odd citizens indeed: among them was Soviet U.N. Delegate Andrei Gromyko, whom Mrs. Vanderbilt regaled with reminiscences of the late Czar Nicholas. After her husband's death in 1942, Grace Vanderbilt abandoned to the wreckers the 58-room Fifth Avenue mansion which had cost her husband's grandfather $1,000,000 to build...
...Russia's chief delegate to the U.N. since 1948, Malik has rivaled even his predecessor Gromyko for plain cussedness (52 vetoes), false charges (germ warfare) and phony offers (the Korean truce). In 1950 he became a TV character as familiar as Hopalong Cassidy, and brought the voice and face of the enemy into the American living room. Last week, Malik was being recalled from his U.N. post for "rest and re-assignment." (Best guess: a high post in the Kremlin's Far East Department.) Asked about his new duties, Malik said only: "There is no unemployment...
...move in the gambit is the return of Andrei Gromyko to the world outside the Iron Curtain. The most experienced and brainiest of the band of hostile, icy "new generation" Communists who today are Russia's representatives to the outside world, Gromyko is plainly a big gun in the Foreign Ministry. In three years as Ambassador to the U.S. and two as Soviet delegate to the United Nations, his showing was brilliant enough (by Kremlin standards) to make him heir presumptive to Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, whose health is none too good. In sending him to London instead...