Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During Stalin's vacation the Politburo got into a fight. Communist Central Committee Secretary Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the Communist Party Control Commission Andrei Andreiev and People's Commissar of Foreign Trade Anastas Mikoyan urged a moderate Soviet foreign policy. Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov and Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrenti Beria were for a more aggressive policy. Molotov had acted on this basis at the last London conference. When Stalin returned, he threw his weight on the moderate side and stressed the overwhelming importance for Russia of getting along with the U.S. and Britain at least long enough...
There was that letter (addressed fraternally to "Dear N. Makin") from old-time Bolshevik Dmitry Manuilsky, who as chairman of the Ukrainian delegation* ran the Russian show until Vishinsky finally arrived from his lengthy briefing by Stalin and Molotov. The letter asked Makin for a UNO probe of British activities in Indonesia. In the same delivery came a similar note on Greece from Andrei Gromyko, Russian ambassador to the U.S. and Russian member of UNO's Assembly. With Iran's appeal against Russian interference in Azerbaijan already on the Council docket, Makin was suddenly in the center...
...succeed Beria, Stalin chose Colonel General Sergei Nikolaevich Kruglev, a baby-faced leviathan (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ib ) who looks like a cop and is one. Kruglev bossed the police detail that guarded Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam, chaperoned Molotov to San Francisco and London. At Potsdam he chain-smoked, enthusiastically bummed chewing gum from every Yank he met, consumed vast quantities of food and vodka, kept his belly shaking with laughter between mouthfuls. President Truman liked Kruglev well enough to give him an autographed picture, a Legion of Merit...
...alternate on the all-powerful Politburo, a vice chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, a marshal of the Soviet Union. Last fortnight he was nominated for re-election to the Supreme Soviet on a special list of handicappers' choices which also includes Candidates Stalin and Molotov. A native of Georgia like his boss, whom he once lionized in an apple-polishing history, Beria joined the C.H.E.K.A...
...Byrnes was buoyant. Bevin was less buoyant; asked about the future he quoted the Gospel according to St. Matthew: "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Molotov said nothing at all, but Moscow papers applauded the communiqu...