Word: konigsberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summoned by a phone call to Moscow. Stalin wanted even more Polish territory than the Curzon Line gave him. Molotov saw the Poles first. He tried to soothe them by saying they could send their shipping from the landlocked Polish port of Elbing through a channel that ran near Konigsberg into the Bay of Danzig. Then the party went to Stalin's office for his approval...
...government in London. They hurriedly complied. Stalin then turned on Molotov and rebuked him thunderously. 'You had no right to agree to let these people use those waters for their shipping,' he stormed. 'I will not have it! I will not have foreign spies spying on Konigsberg! You know very well we have established a military sea base there.' We were dismissed like vassals and told to return to Warsaw...
...Carroll Bumpers 1L, Eliot G. Gordon '47, Wayland C. Griffith 2G, Charles Konigsberg '50, and Stanley Leyden '48 round out the steering committee of the College division of the national organization...
...leaders was a sign that the Foreign Commissar might return to the Premiership. C| Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, 48, Red Army Chief of Staff (1943-45), signed the anniversary Order of the Day as Stalin's deputy. He left his planning job to acquire glory as the conqueror of Konigsberg in East Prussia and as commander in the brief war against Japan. Vasilevsky, now Deputy Commissar of Defense, may soon replace Stalin as Defense Commissar. General Alexei 1. Antonov, 44, who succeeded Vasilevsky as Chief of Staff, reviewed the troops in Red Square. Antonov's next...
Behind Zhukov the armies of the Second and Third White Russian Fronts hammered down the resistance pockets the Germans had left in East Prussia and the Polish Corridor. They took the town of Brandenburg on the east and neared Braunsberg on the west sides of the pocket below Konigsberg. In twin battles to the west they fought for the ports of Danzig and Gdynia...