Word: nikolai
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...Russia, that Baltic power, was ready to flex her muscles. On National Navy Day there were demonstrations, maneuvers, parades on all Russia's seas. People's Commissar for Navy Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov declared that 168 new Russian "warships"-many of which may be mosquito torpedo boats, which the Russians love-would be launched this year; and newspapers boasted that soon the Red Navy would be second to none other...
...tough, one-eyed Herbert Morrison, popular Leader of the London County Council (in effect "Mayor of Greater London"), a Socialist of the same practical stamp as Bevin who keeps in his office a small, framed portrait of Nikolai Lenin, went the job of Churchillizing the new setup. This he did by putting British war industries on a 24-hour production schedule, with twelve-hour shifts, such as are being worked in France and Germany, and sounding off with gruff eloquence: "There is time for nothing now but an intense, concentrated effort of muscle, mind and will. . . . The peace and civilization...
When Count Ciano took a flying trip to Berlin and was again snubbed as a meddling boy, Italy countered by turning the heat on Germany's silent partner Russia. Later Russian Ambassador-designate to Rome Nikolai Gorelchin was given such a roasting press reception that he was recalled before he had even seen King Vittorio Emanuele III; and home to Rome went Italian Ambassador to Moscow Augusto Rosso (whose name means...
...Romano in Vatican City credited this view, at least so far as supplies went. In England, erstwhile War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha added color to the world's conjectures with a fighting (and uncensored) speech calling for instant Allied aid to Finland by land, air and sea. Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, handsome young top commissar of the Red Navy, was reported speeding to Murmansk, main base for Russia's northern Fleet. White Russians in the U. S. talked excitedly about a counter-revolutionary regime, to be set up in northern Russia if the Allies strike there...
...established himself as a leader. He went on to the Nikolaev Cavalry School in Russia proper and came out a second lieutenant in 1889, aged 22. Two years later he wangled a transfer to the Tsar's Chevalier Guard. After his marriage to Anastasia, daughter of Major General Nikolai Arapov of the Tsar's suite, Lieutenant Mannerheim's advance was rapid. He became a first lieutenant in 1893, a second captain in 1899, a captain of cavalry in 1901. In 1904 he went off to fight in the Russo-Japanese War as a lieutenant colonel of dragoons...