Word: gromykos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...succeeded a man whose perambulating habits were less certain: Andrei Gromyko, who became permanent Soviet representative on the U.N. Security Council...
...Babylonian banquet for the Security Councilmen at the Grand Concourse Plaza Hotel, Iran seemed far away indeed. Marshaled (vainly) to convince the U.N. that they should not move out of the hospitable Bronx were steaks, caviar, champagne and a three-piece band to play Meadowland for Delegate Gromyko. But no sooner had the last mellow tones subsided than the jarring discords of the supposedly settled Iran issue again filled...
When the Council reconvened six days later, Andrei A. Gromyko lumberingly repeated his country's demand that the "socalled" Iran issue be dropped from the agenda without waiting...
...Illegal." Gromyko saw it in a different light. He sent another letter, denouncing the decision as "illegal." He ended: "The Soviet Government insists that the Iranian question must be dropped from the agenda...
...Gavam had made a deal, it was at least a better one than he could have got without U.N. support. And if Gromyko had issued another ultimatum, it was one which admitted that U.N. had had a right to consider the case...