Word: potemkin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Koskinen the text of another Finnish note. The note had not arrived when the baron was called to the Russian Foreign Office at 10:30 p. m. There was wide suspicion that it had been deliberately held up in transmission. At any rate, Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin had other business to transact with Minister Yrjo-Koskinen. He handed the baron his passport, told him that diplomatic relations between Russia and Finland were broken. When Minister Yrjo-Koskinen got back to the Finnish Legation he found the note and dispatched it to the Foreign Office by a Legation...
...eyed, gifted Prince Potemkin, best-beloved among Catherine's shoals of lovers, "looked not unlike Charlie Chaplin." He got away and took a rest from passion whenever he could. Tableau of "the broad Russian nature": Potemkin, at the battlefront, in his underground palace, amusing himself, between attacks of acute melancholia, with concubines, an orchestra, guitars...
...Demanded that the vessel and cargo be turned over to the U. S. > Asked who had verified the alleged damage to the City of Flint's machinery that Vice Commissar Potemkin asserted to be the reason for the ship's remaining at Murmansk...
Commissar Potemkin based his reply on various inadequacies of the Russian communication system, customs of the country, lack of information, "well-recognized principles of international law," and the obligations of a neutral. As for turning the vessel and her cargo over to her U. S. crew, Russia had made a final decision that to do so, unless the German prize crew refused to take it out, would be an "un-neutral...
...registered by Argentina, Chile, Japan, The Netherlands, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries, the U. S. But these complaints were private. Last week Germany's big new friend Russia complained formally, officially. In a note handed at Moscow to British Ambassador Sir William Seeds, Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin found the interests of neutral countries gravely impaired, international trade destroyed...