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Nenes & Rooster Tails. After the war, Russia's master of tactical air power and air force chief, Alexander Novikov, was fired and jailed. Just about that time, Russia turned more attention to heavy bombers, even separated its air force from ground command (it has since been returned to army control). The new air boss was a shining party light, 46-year-old Marshal Konstantin Vershinin, Hero of the Soviet Union, and one of the top World War II commanders. His orders were to get going on jets. Russia's designers had proved that they could build conventional planes...
Making his first official call on India's new Governor General Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, Soviet Ambassador Kirill Novikov* addressed "Rajaji" as "Your Excellency." When the Governor General expressed surprise at his use of the title, Novikov explained:"We dropped the custom after the Revolution, but later felt that it had been a mistake."† "What?" Rajaji inquired sweetly. "The Revolution...
...confused with former Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Nikolai V. Novikov. † Having restored the use of titles in all the branches of government service, Moscow reverted to another good old czarist custom last week by instituting "special forms of clothing," rank insignia and personal titles for officers of financial and banking institutions. Top rank: General State Counselor of Financial Service...
...Soviet Ambassador to China from 1939 to 1944. At that point, chronic stomach trouble - that was the story, and it was a likely story - forced him to return to Russia. A tall, slouching man with a pale face, Panyushkin covers his Communist inflexibility with a manner that, compared to Novikov's, is affable and friendly. Like most younger Russian diplomats, his English is poor and he frequently submits to interpretation. He is a member of the revision committee of the Communist Party's Central Executive Committee, a body of highly trusted party members headed by Stalin himself...
...change? Washington's best guess was that Novikov was needed else where, and that it didn't much matter who was the Kremlin's office boy in Washington. Novikov speaks good Arabic. He was Minister in Cairo during the war, and he got behind the scenes in the Arab states. With the Arab hive buzzing over Palestine the Kremlin might well have a new job for Novikov...