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Sparking the drive is the Government's Ail-Union Committee for Physical Culture. It is headed by Nikolai Romanov (no kin of the late Czar), who bosses 600 stadiums, 14,000 playgrounds, 6,000 skiing stations, 45,000 volleyball courts. Romanov's job is emphatically part of the Soviet preparedness program...
...Danube to the Danubian people," cried Yugoslavia's Krasovec, with a strident isolationism reminiscent of U.S. Midwest Senators in 1915. Russia's Nikolai Feonov generalized the anti-trade point into a principle in his criticism of an ECOSOC report calling for the economic coordination of Europe. He found that it "tends to favor the still greater development of highly developed countries." He presaged Molotov's warning that free trade destroyed the independence of weaker countries, adding: "I, for instance, believe that bilateral agreements are for the time being the best...
...Nikolai V. Novikov, owlish Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., arriving from Paris at LaGuardia Field, was involved in a border incident with New York City customs and immigration men. He was taken to the crowded Public Health Room for the routine quarantine and immigration lineup, was questioned, examined, and cross-examined as if he were "just a passenger." The procedure annoyed him. When he tried to phone the Soviet Consulate, an airline representative barred the way. Novikov drew his iron curtain about him and glared. A few minutes later, a customs inspector requested him to sign a baggage declaration...
...Soviet delegate, an economist named Nikolai Feonov, told a Russianized version of Aesop's fable about the wolf and the lamb, in which the lamb retorted to the wolf's accusations with such vexingly clever answers that the wolf finally ate the lamb for its impertinence. The lamb, of course, was the Soviet Union, the wolf...
...promoting it, promptly balked. The issue was raised by U.N.'s Economic & Social Council in an awesome, 450-page report on Europe's economy. Recommended: integration of Europe's economy under an all-European Economic Commission (in effect, an economic United States of Europe). Russian Delegate Nikolai I. Feonov denounced the plan as "not very desirable to Russia," implied that it was a capitalist plot "to make good profits...