Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever had of cooperating with the West, save in brief tactical moments. Did his outburst mean that the fanatics of the Kremlin were condemning not only the peaceful part of the world, but the patient Russian people, exhausted by years of dictatorship and permanent economic depression, to World War III? Only the Kremlin knew. Certainly, more conflict lay immediately ahead at U.N. This week, the Assembly's steering committee voted (over strenuous Russian objection) to add George Marshall's new proposals to the working agenda. Without objection from the U.S., the committee agreed that Vishinsky's resolution...
...middle of the 15th Century, Moneybag's descendants had established a dynasty and a tyranny. Ivan III married Zoe, the niece of the last Eastern Roman emperor, who brought Byzantium's religion, architecture and incense-heavy intrigue to Moscow, which was now more powerful than any other Russian city. She hoped to make it succeed history's two earlier Romes (the one on the Tiber and the one on the Bosporus). Ivan took the title of Czar, i.e., Caesar, and Sovereign of all the Russias. He began to build a strong brick wall around the Kremlin...
...Foreign Minister, Conference Chairman Raúl Fernandes, gave a dinner and a buffet extravaganza for 1,000 in the Quitandinha's Dom Pedro I room. Guests had chicken, lobster, 20 kinds of cake, 168 bottles of Scotch, and watched Brazilian women curtsy to Dom Pedro III, pretender to Brazil's non-existent throne (the party's cost: $5,000). This week, with party after party set for the Truman visit, delegates' wives would have no more time for bridge and letter-writing. After three dull weeks, the gaudy ex-gambling palace in the valley...
...Sons of Freedom burned their own homes, too. When Anista Arishnikoff's home was set afire, she knelt in front of it, full of joy. "Look," she cried, "I protest the coming of World War III." Freedomite Helen Domoskoff said proudly: "I burned my house and my lovely radio." Local and provincial police, long troubled by Doukhobor outbreaks but unwilling to be called "persecutors," held back...
...confused with John's fun-loving brother, Adolph B. III...