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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Molotov was chosen as a Politburo "nominee" (alternate) in 1923. Then he was only 33. (This week he turned 59.) In 1930 he became Premier. Through the '20s and '30s, Molotov had a big hand in the forming of inner Soviet policy in all fields: foreign, domestic, Comintern. In May 1939, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Minister. Four months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Said Molotov: "One may accept or reject the ideology of Hitlerism . . . that is a matter of political views...
...radio. Even the dollar famine was turned to Eva's ends; the National Economic Council decreed that during the shortage of foreign exchange, all newspapers would have to pool their newsprint stocks. This meant that the independent La, Prensa and La Nación would have to hand over much of their reserve stock to Peronista newspapers. Eva's man took charge of the divvying...
Last week the company struck a shrewd blow at filtración. Under a new plan, the conductors (many of whom are women) were required to hand out a ticket for each fare received. When a passenger had collected 25 tickets, he would turn them in for a numbered "gift certificate." Holders of each month's lucky numbers would win: a $15,000 house, six refrigerators, six console radios, six washing machines, six bicycles, 99 table radios, 99 pairs of shoes, 700 towel sets and-just to keep the gambling wheel spinning-2,277 tickets in the National Lottery...
Pravda worked out one of its fine diplomatic distinctions. It called Old Soldier Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. ambassador to Moscow, a "professional spy." On the other hand, ECAmbassador W. Averell Harriman, who once had Smith's job, was merely a "spy by avocation...
Cabled the New York Herald Tribune's old China Hand A. T. ("Arch") Steele: "These [Communists] no longer are the same easily approachable people they were during the salad days at Yenan . . . No foreigner here has succeeded in meeting any [important] Communist . . . What is not clear is how much this [standoffishness] is a calculated policy...