Word: gromykos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians meanwhile were giving an increasingly clear indication of what their own strategy would be. All over Europe last week, they trumpeted two slogans. The first was "peace." Andrei Gromyko, who makes news whenever he cracks a smile, left Lake Success for Moscow and remarked: "We have to work for peace, both the Americans and the Russians. They can work together if they want to." Said Moscow's New Times: "The Council of Foreign Ministers could actually become a turning point in the course of postwar settlement...
Some of them recalled such a portent as Gromyko smiling at the U.N. Assembly's opening session. Others reported that Russian officers, after months of isolation, showed up at a U.S. Army cocktail party in Berlin and were pretty pleasant. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman confirmed that U.S.-Russian talks had taken place-on the "corridor level...
...considered opinion last week became the basis of a heated debate in U.N.'s high councils. Among the fanciers of Sam's sandwiches is Hector McNeil, British delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. Last week McNeil rose in the Assembly. "I am informed," he said, "that Mr. Gromyko and his colleagues live in a luxurious well-walled dwelling on Long Island ... I plead with Mr. Gromyko ... to escape from these . . . luxurious fastnesses, to go to a delicatessen, to a drugstore on a bus or a subway, where the normal hard-working . . . man and woman meet ... [He will find...
Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy quickly jumped to Gromyko's defense. McNeil, he said, must have been visiting "the delicatessen of the Waldorf-Astoria. People in my delicatessen talk differently." When a newsman later asked where his pro-Russian delicatessen was located, Katz-Suchy impatiently brushed him off. "I often eat in delicatessens," he said evasively, "all along Sixth Avenue...
Russia's Andrei Gromyko lumped the veto question with the North Atlantic pact. The pact, he cried, was a direct. threat to Russia; moreover it was in violation of the U.N. charter. It took McNeil no time at all to demolish Gromyko's argument. "No one fears, or need fear the Atlantic pact, if their intentions are pacific . . ." he said. "Those to whom the thought and methods of war are utterly repugnant . . . will welcome the Atlantic pact...