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...Obsolete Doctrine. Russia's frantic insistence on national sovereignty was also demonstrated in the Commission on Human Rights, which was considering a worldwide Bill of Rights. Russia's Alexei Pavlov promptly cried that it represented interference with Russian sovereignty. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak summed up the West's position when he cried: "We fear you when you preach this antiquated, obsolete doctrine of national sovereignty...
Died. Maria Kapitonovna Petrova, 72, star pupil and longtime colleague of the late, great Physiologist Ivan Pavlov in his studies of conditioned reflex (by experiments with dogs); in Leningrad. She carried on Pavlov's studies after he died in 1936, published more than 100 works, lived according to Pavlov's precept: happiness is nothing, the dogs mean...
Last week Byrnes had an hour alone with Molotov-and presumably with Molotov's indispensable man, Translator Vladimir ("Pinky") Pavlov. Next day the Big Four had a cozy lunch with a mere handful of aides present. The only news that came out was that the conferees ate beefsteak...
Aside from the usual run of Soviet propaganda, nothing newsworthy happened except the discovery, by Molotov's translator, Vladimir N. ("Pinky") Pavlov, of a word the Russians seem to have been groping for. In a meeting of the Big Four to consider restrictions on the veto, the word "majorization" was born. "Majorization," as the Western diplomats get it, is the deplorable tendency to reach international decisions by majority vote. Molotov preferred a businesslike approach, which would please the minority as well as the majority. So did everyone else, but little progress on how to achieve that goal with...
...estate, and the occasion, at Flushing, when indomitable Foreign Minister Molotov almost walked straight into a wall where he thought a door should have been. But it was perhaps typical of the new Russian mood that he smilingly permitted himself to be guided along the right path by Interpreter Pavlov, thus avoiding a major clash of unyielding forces...