Word: kalinin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ostracized in Russia as "Capitalist spies," sat in their embassies and legations while Bill Bullitt hobnobbed with: Premier Molotov, dry, dynamic and full of statistics, who signs decrees for the State while Stalin signs them for the Party. Stalin's Front Man, gay and juicy old President Mikhail Kalinin, whom Ambassador Bullitt called "charming." Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff whose bright-eyed children Tanya and Mischa convinced nine-year-old Anne Bullitt that "Moscow is swell and the theatres are grand!" War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Vorishilov, who was picked and successfully popularized by Stalin to efface from Soviet minds...
...sort of genial grandpa to the whole Soviet Union is stern Josef Stalin's front man, twinkly-eyed, scrubby-bearded Michail Ivanovich Kalinin, whose wife, many Russians think, resembles Mrs. Roosevelt...
President Roosevelt calls Grandpa Kalinin officially "President"' as do heads of other foreign states, but Russians call him to his face familiarly and affectionately "Michail Son-of-Ivan." One day last week U. S. correspondents in Moscow were ushered in to the first interview ever given by the Grandpa President. They found him in a blue serge suit, old brown sweater and clean white shirt perched on the desk of Commissioner of Communications Alexei Rykov. "Well, well," chuckled Grandpa Kalinin accepting and lighting a U. S. cigaret, "I have never been so close to so many American newspapermen before...
...close of the interview President Kalinin grinned broadly when asked whether President Roosevelt, by insisting that Russia reaffirm the religious rights of foreigners in the Soviet Union, had paved the way for a rapprochement be tween Moscow and the Vatican. "About that," he twinkled, "I do not want to make propaganda." With asperity in Vatican City the Papal newsorgan L'Osservatore Romano last week declared that Comrade Litvinoff's pledges to President Roosevelt on the freedom of religious practice in U. S. S. R. are not only worthless but "clearly mean ingless...
Baring his canine teeth in a merry grin, round little Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. shrewd, sly Foreign Commissar of the U. S. S. R., arrived in the U. S. last week. He promptly reminded the Press that President Roosevelt had "taken the initiative in addressing Mr. Kalinin." repeated the statement he had made in Berlin that as far as he was concerned it would take "less than half an hour" to conclude recognition negotiations between his country and President Roosevelt's. Commissar Litvinoff and the world at large had been beguiled by the friendliness of Franklin Roosevelt's invitation...