Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zhdanov's Finnish disgrace was a delight to his rival Molotov. One anecdote of the period tells how Zhdanov was talking to Stalin in the latter's office in the Kremlin. The phone rang. It was Molotov. Stalin talked to him for some five minutes, but Stalin's part of the conversation consisted in saying "yes, yes, yes" while Zhdanov sweated visibly. Finally, just before he hung up, Stalin said "no, no." Stalin glanced up at Zhdanov, who was looking relieved, and said: "Don't be too happy. He just asked me whether I was having...
...fire in the city. When in 1942 a relief road was opened to Leningrad across frozen Lake Ladoga, Zhdanov, iron-willed, withheld from the people the food it carried, ordered it stocked in the reserve. In Soviet propaganda the story of Leningrad has been overshadowed by Stalingrad, because the latter marked the beginning of the Red Army offensive. But if the Kremlin should decide (in order to underline Russia's strength against an enemy it can't reach) to stress the U.S.S.R.'s purely defensive power, the propaganda story will be Leningrad, and Zhdanov its hero...
...very dissimilar groups-trade unionists and those they call "bloody intellectuals"-were becoming increasingly uneasy bedfellows. Grossman, one of the latter group, was still sounding off in the New Statesman, of which he is assistant editor. Said the latest issue (commenting on the U.S. coal strike): "For Britain and British labor the moral seems to be that to be entangled in the mess of America's economic confusion spells disaster just as surely as to accept American dictation in an international policy that may fluctuate as much as the shares on Wall Street...
...also disclosed that any delegate chosen by the College whould be supported financially, either from student Council funds, or with money collected at next week's Jan Masaryk talk, for which 25 cents admission will be charged. If enough money is not collected by the latter method, student approval for a Council subsidy will be sought on the ballot which will be sought on the ballot which will pick the delegate...
Loaded with goalie talent, the team boasts John Lavalle, former tender of the nets for St. Paul's School, and two Freshmen, Copeland Draper and Bill Yetman. The latter is a Nova Scotian and former Junior Olympic star...