Word: popoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side sat lanky, leonine Premier George Papandreou with members of his Government and leaders of other political groups. At the other end were Churchill, Eden, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Lieut. General Ronald Scobie, U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh, French Ambassador Jean Batlen, Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Gregory Popoff. Only the ELAS seats were vacant...
...that the sensitive Doukhobors had been offended again, were resorting to their favorite passive protest.* Among the onlookers stalked a bearded man, wearing 21 oranges in a double-deck crown held together by a net and three dingy white streamers which trailed along behind. The Czar of Heaven (Louis Popoff to the police) did not disrobe then, but he did insist on accompanying the six men and six women to jail. The oranges fell off in the excitement. The Czar understands that Christ will soon return for seven days, wants to offer him one orange for each meal...
...Promptly Popoff paraded again, this time garbed only in his crown. "Let my brothers out of jail," he shouted. Result: two years for the Czar...
Between Sofia and Bucharest a commuter sped last week-heavy Victor Cadere, Rumanian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, close friend of King Carol II. He was chosen to negotiate the Bulgarian claims because as Ambassador to Belgrade he had earned the warm friendship of the then Bulgarian Ambassador, Ivan Popoff, who is now Bulgaria's Foreign Minister. From Popoff to his King, from King to Popoff, Ambassador Cadere went, now with a warning, now with a concession, begging the retention of the important city of Silistra, asking reparations for public works. At a moment when Rumania seemed to stiffen, Hungary ominously...