Word: praesidium
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...appear, but a printed statement from her declared: "India has a special link with the Soviet Union, since both India and Russia have shown a capacity to blend and harmonize different races and civilizations." Her softly modulated voice was saved for private Kremlin chats with Chairman of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Shvernik and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky. Though her appointment was approved by George VI and she is officially His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador, Mrs. Pandit has always been popular with the Russians for her consistently anti-British line. As India...
...Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has relieved Assistant People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs Comrade Litvinoff of his post as Ambassador and Envoy Plenipotentiary of the U.S.S.R. in the United States. Comrade Andrei Gromyko has been appointed Ambassador and Envoy Plenipotentiary of the U.S.S.R. in the United States." Ever since the Soviet revolution Maxim Litvinoff has been the stoutest Russian advocate of close friendship and collaboration with Britain and the U.S. And the significance of Litvinoff's removal was not isolated: only last month Ivan Maisky, warm admirer of the British...
...political science; Pravda has the austerity of Truth and it is a rare Russian who sets himself up as a better judge of that absolute. It has a daily press run of at least 2,000,000 copies, considerably more than that of Izvestia ("News"), the organ of the Praesidium of the Supreme Council; four times that of Red Star, the Army newspaper...
...letter day in the Red career of big, soft, heavy-eyed. 48-year-old Benjamin Gitlow came on May 14, 1929. The scene was Moscow's regal Red Hall. The occasion: a full meeting of the Praesidium of the Communist International. Purpose: to whip the recalcitrant U. S. delegation (Gitlow, chairman) into line behind Boss Stalin. In charge was Stalin himself. It was 4:00 a. m. Leaden-eyed, grey-faced with weariness and capitulation, the world's top Communists had heard Stalin denounce the U. S. comrades as Right Wingers, "rotten" diplomats, Hooverites, Babbitts, bourgeois opportunists...
...previous years, before the new Constitution, the Praesidium will rule Russia as the chief organ of Government, exercising by decree the executive and legislative functions, having the judicial right of pardon. But the Praesidium, once a roster of Russia's most distinguished Old Bolsheviks, now has a majority of New Bolsheviks, many so new in the Dictator's favor that they are quite unknown to the Russian people. Only one list of 37 names was offered as candidates for the Praesidium. An announcement was made in passing that this list had been prepared by the "Council of Elders...