Word: gromykos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hotels had allotted 1% of their transient space (625 rooms) to delegates, but problems still arose. At the dignified Plaza, onetime haunt of the late F. Scott Fitzgerald, bullet-headed Soviet agents looked for a room for Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, turned down one with a balcony for fear a capitalist might rope his way up to the window with a roscoe. China's Victor Hoo knocked at the wrong room at the Waldorf-Astoria, was handed a bundle of laundry, had to exercise the utmost diplomacy to get the woman inside to take it back...
Gone was the grand manner and blue & gold magnificence of San Francisco and London. The delegates sat round a curved committee table in a light-paneled room that had been a basketball court two weeks before. Before the 51-minute opening session was half over, Andrei Gromyko was reading the paper. He looked up startled when the audience laughed at a high-flown French reference to le President du Bronx...
...Manuilsky, who as chairman of the Ukrainian delegation* ran the Russian show until Vishinsky finally arrived from his lengthy briefing by Stalin and Molotov. The letter asked Makin for a UNO probe of British activities in Indonesia. In the same delivery came a similar note on Greece from Andrei Gromyko, Russian ambassador to the U.S. and Russian member of UNO's Assembly. With Iran's appeal against Russian interference in Azerbaijan already on the Council docket, Makin was suddenly in the center of open disputes openly arrived...
...Council, the UNO Assembly had its wrangles too. Old-rose, well-upholstered Paul-Henri Spaak, the Assembly president, relaxed in his old-rose, well-upholstered chair on the blue-&-gold rostrum, sometimes made a note with a gigantic goose quill, quickly handled awkward situations. One spat came after Ambassador Gromyko had urged that the Communist-backed World Federation of Trade Unions (W.F.T.U.) be granted UNO representation. Peppery Premier Peter Fraser of New Zealand spoke up angrily: "Unless we get a resolution with which Mr. Gromyko agrees on every dot and comma, he is not satisfied. I throw that back...
...sorts of special-purpose groups-even of women. Turning to a Syrian delegate nearby, he shouted: "Would you like to have women in here dictating to us what to do?" The Syrian, caught off guard, replied with a startled "No." Flushed with triumph, Connally kept on pounding. Gromyko whispered to his neighbor, "I hope they have reinforced the table." The W.F.T.U. application was shelved...