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Borrowing from Ivan A. Krylov (1768-1844), the Russian Aesop, McNeil said: "It seems . . . that a poor serpent was unhappy because everyone was afraid of him, and he concluded that the fear was due to his unfortunate voice. So the serpent pleaded with Jupiter to give him the voice of a nightingale. Up in the tree he went and started to sing with all the seductive charm of the nightingale...
...while Vishinsky seemed licked. But a few hours later he rose and addressed McNeil. "It would be well," said he, "if you would confine yourself to English fables, for perhaps your repertory is more complete. You made the mistake of not studying all of Krylov. One fable is The Slanderer and the Snake. I am not going to tell you whom I am thinking of; you can interpret it as you wish...
...Visscher (Belgium), J. Philadelpho de Barros e Azevedo (Brazil), Sir Arnold D. McNair (Britain), John E. Read (Canada), Hsu Mo (China), Alejandro Alvarez (Chile), Abdel Hamid Badawi Pasha (Egypt), J. Gustavo Guerrero (El Salvador), Jules Basdevant (France), Fabela Alfaro (Mexico), Helge Klaestad (Norway), Bohdan Winiarski (Poland), Sergei B. Krylov (Russia), Green H. Hackworth (U.S.), Milovan Zoricich (Yugoslavia...
...advisors on international law are Professors Sergei Krylov (Moscow University) and Sergei Golunsky (Academy of Science...