Word: nikolais
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Then one morning, Dr. Itten spotted a newspaper notice of the death of Titus Kammerer, host to Nikolai Lenin during his exile in Switzerland. Hastening to the bereaved home, Itten struck a bargain with Kammerer's son for a tea glass, a strainer and two butter knives, the only mementos left behind by Russia's revolutionary deity. Itten completed the deal just as a Soviet delegation drove...
...Questions. In time Ernest was given a new contact: Nikolai Orlov, assistant naval attaché at the Soviet embassy. Last summer, Stockholm's police got a tip to look into the frequent meetings between the two naval officers, Swedish and Russian. The police shadowed Andersson, observed his note-taking and followed his exchange of bicycles. In the toolbox of Orlov's bike, they found all the evidence they needed...
...Nikolai Shvernik...
...peace meetings, Communism trotted out its shiniest fronts and most attractive faces: artists like Pablo Picasso, Rockwell Kent and Diego Rivera, authors like Howard Fast, clergy like Britain's Dr. Hewlett ("Red Dean of Canterbury") Johnson, and Metropolitan Nikolai of the Russian Orthodox Church...
...Russians last week fired their biggest gun yet in their new peace offensive. In a letter to President Truman, Russia's President Nikolai Shvernik proposed a five-power pact for disarmament and "for the strengthening of peace." Wrote Shvernik (a figurehead who rarely makes the front pages): "I take this occasion to request you to transmit to the American people my greetings and good wishes from the people of the Soviet Union . . ." He added pointedly: "A most important step must be the elimination of discrimination with regard to the Soviet Union on the part of the American authorities...