Word: kisselev
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...That!" For one thing, it was hard to pin down the Russian bloc. When the Western majority moved to consider Greek claims in the Bulgarian Political and Territorial Commission, Chairman Kuzma V. Kisselev of Byelorussia hastily adjourned the session and rose to leave the room. "You can't do that!" cried Australia's Colonel William R. Hodgson. "You are a servant of this Commission." Kisselev kept going, was dutifully followed by the delegates from Russia, the Ukraine, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The Western quorum stayed to pass a vote of censure. This week Russia abandoned its attempt to give...
...Kuzma V. Kisselev slipped. Asked when students would be admitted to his Byelorussia, he said: "After the war." Reminded that technically the war was over for Russia, Kisselev confessed a "lapsus linguae." His translator, who knew no Latin, looked blank. "Tell them I made a mistake," said Kisselev...
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