Word: presidium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anniversary speeches in Moscow (see above) were far overshadowed, in importance and revealing detail, by an other speech - made last August. The speech was delivered by Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. TIME Correspondent Craig Thompson got the text last week, and found in it the best report in years on how it is with Russia...
Demobilization of Russia's huge Red Army (estimated V-Day total: 12,000,000) began in earnest last week. By order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, soldiers and noncommissioned officers in ten age groups and hundreds of thousands of specialists will be released from duty by year...
...first and most significant crisis of the San Francisco conference appeared the second day. It arose in the steering committee, when Anthony Eden moved that Ed Stettinius be made permanent chairman of the conference. Molotov objected: he said that a presidium of the four sponsoring powers should rotate among themselves the chairmanships of the plenary sessions and of the most important committees...
Though they produce able disputants, the Russians do not really believe in discussion. The Big Four were the boss, they reasoned, and the way to recognize that fact was by a Big Four presidium which would confine effective discussion to the controlling powers. The Russians never gave up on this issue. But, thanks to Ed Stettinius, Senator Vandenberg and such little-nation spokesmen as Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, they never...
...their own way, and in their own interest, the U.S. and Britain were as jealous of Big Power prerogatives as Russia was. But they went about it differently. Not a presidium but a U.S. institution, the smoke-filled room, preserved Big Power unity. San Francisco's smoky room was the parlor of Stettinius' suite atop the Fairmont Hotel, where the Big Power representatives were in almost daily session...