Word: gromyko
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...words in Gromyko's proposal were "periodically" and "inspection." Ten nations out of twelve on U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission (Russia and Poland are the other two) have already agreed that there can be no security that depends on teams of international outsiders taking a "periodic" look at atomic progress here & there. Nor do they think "inspection" is sufficient; the U.N. majority believes that only an international authority-supervising most atomic production phases 24 hours a day and actually operating some phases-will give security...
...discourage optimists. Said one foreign diplomat, after lunch: "I am stupid. I have done it again & again. I thought this morning for a while that the Russians really meant business." Square, old-fashioned Warren Austin, senior U.S. delegate who likes to look for the bright side, at first thought Gromyko's words meant "a very promising advance." But It turned out that he had misunderstood at least one ambiguous passage...
...Atomic Energy Commission, gentle, saturnine Frederick H. Osborn, wasted no time on doubtful optimism. The 58-year-old geneticist and wartime major general (morale branch), who makes Britons at Lake Success think of Lord Halifax, was already on the record with an uncompromising verdict against the kind of control Gromyko proposed: "A fraud on the people of the world...
...summer smells of popcorn and gasoline swept across Manhattan's hectic heartland-Times Square. Behind the cool glass panes of the Pepsi-Cola United Nations Center, an underpublicized celebrity was speaking on international friendship. It was Lidiya Gromyko, the diplomat's wife, appearing on the 21st of a series of ABC broadcasts on United Nations First Ladies. The interviewer: Alma Kitchell, a lesser Mary Margaret McBride. The broadcast was conceived in the widespread, well-meaning conviction (shared by the more thoughtful teenagers, the more optimistic cocktail partygoers and UNESCO) that a thorough exchange of information is the shortest...
...Gromyko: . . . I should be glad to answer your questions...