Word: pauker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formation was revelatory-it said clearly that in the Soviet hierarchy Malenkov Was Zhdanov's replacement. Zhdanov's death raised Malenkov and Rumania's matriarchal but equally tough Ana Pauker to the top of the Cominform heap...
Rumania's boss-lady, Comrade Ana Pauker, tangled most bluntly with the West. When Britain's Sir Charles Peake spoke of the need for reciprocity between nations, she cried: "We know you. We had you around for a long time, and we don't want you again...
Chairman Vishinsky was unmoved. He apologized for his earlier longwindedness, smiled: "I sinned, but who will cast the last stone?" Then he put the treaty to a vote, clause by clause. In 23 minutes, he whipped his boys (and Mme. Pauker) through the required 58 votes. Once, one of his stooges forgot to raise his hand; Vishinsky nudged him: "Hey, pay attention." Fifty-seven times, as he voted "abstention," Cannon's arm shot up like a railroad signal gone wild; the 58th time (when the draft as a whole was put to the vote) he voted...
...hours later, the Danube treaty, which gives the Soviet Union control of the Danube as far upstream as Ulm, was signed by the delegates with two Ever-sharp fountain pens. The Western nations refused to sign. Ana Pauker, in high spirits, wore her twelfth new suit in 20 days (smoke-grey with white piping, New Look length). Her immediate plans: "A holiday trip on the Danube-our Danube...
Rumania's Amazonian Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, wearing a New Look dress of white-flowered blue silk, with a grey lizard handbag, rose and in stumbling Russian said she had always cherished that language as her mother tongue. She had to be prompted by an assistant when she forgot the Russian word for "love."* At the end she mopped her brow in obvious relief. After these satellite tributes, English was voted down 7-3. (Next day the Bulgarians, Hungarians and Yugoslavs switched from Russian to French for their speeches...