Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stop work on the book he was writing, offered to get him the money to pay back whatever advances had been made. Pirogov was scornful. As they left, Pirogov said: "Tell them thanks for their offer of money and for finding such a fool in you. If we ever meet again, it will be as bitter enemies." Barsov replied: "The embassy says it makes no difference if it's five or ten years-Pirogov will be back in the Soviet Union. I will watch you swing in Moscow's Red Square...
After Pirogov reported this to U.S. authorities, Barsov was watched closely. Immigration men had no intention of allowing the Russians to smuggle their backslid refugee out of the country in a dramatic "rescue." Three weeks later, Pirogov arranged to meet Barsov in a Washington restaurant "Aux Trois Mousquetaires," a block from the White House...
...would produce no definitive, radical or inspiring solution. It seemed likely that a series of short-range adjustments, like a shovelful of gravel under a skidding wheel, might help pull Britain out of the immediate financial mudhole in which she was floundering. There would be more mudholes ahead; to meet them, the conference might set up a long-range approach through a permanent Anglo-American staff for economic cooperation...
...more, in the face of Britain's dwindling dollar reserves, British opinion itself was pressing for devaluation. It was argued that devaluation was inevitable anyway, and that its delay had become a "psychological" obstacle to traders in the sterling area. London's Economist summoned British "statesmanship" to meet the crisis with "imagination...
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