Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the visitors will be Professor Henry N. Russell, Director of Princeton Observatory; Robert E. Marshak, University of Rochester, collaborator with H. A. Bethe on the theory of generation of solar energy; Ivan A. Getting, Research Fellow in preventive medicine and epidemiology, Harvard cosmic ray specialist; Professor Mather; and others...
...Germany, the "protector" of The Netherlands, would do about her colonies. Saturday Mr. Churchill let it be known that his Government was seeking a "new and more friendly approach" to the Soviet Union, that two days earlier Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax had had an important talk with Soviet Ambassador Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky. Though this discussion was confined to trade problems, Russia's growing fear of German military might led London to speculate on "an improvement of Anglo-Russian relations." ∧ The R. A. F.'s gallant, aggressive action throughout the week (see p. 27) showed that...
...which Russia has just fought one costly war. Since Germany went into Norway, shipment of Russian materials to Germany has slowed down, through inefficiency, misroutings, losses and other deeply regretted causes. Russia has been very courteous in its dealings with both Finland and Sweden, and last week Ambassador Ivan Maisky had a long talk with British Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler about the possibility of a trade agreement with Great Britain. This week the possibility of such an agreement seemed likelier as Ambassador Maisky again visited the Foreign Office, this time conferred with Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax...
...five leaders of the conference, each of whom will conduct the conference for two days on his special field, and their topics for lectures and discussions, will be: Dr. Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President and former Presbyterian minister, speaking on "The Problems of Economics"; Bishop Ivan Lee Holt, of Dallas, Texas, former president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, at present Chairman of the Council's Commission for the Study of Christian Unity. "The Problem of World Organization"; Dr. Gerald B. Phelan, President of the Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada, noted psychologist, "The Problem...
...Russia's Ambassador to Great Britain, amiable little Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, trotted around to No. 9 Downing Street one day last week to reiterate the Soviet Union's first concrete complaint against British war behavior. On Jan. 13, British warships off Formosa stopped the Red freighter Selenga, en route from a Chinese port to Vladivostok with a cargo of tin, antimony and wolframite (tungsten ore). They took the Selenga clear to Hong Kong for examination, on the suspicion that the metals were destined for Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Last week the Selenga and her cargo were...