Word: presidium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of semicircular boxes on the north wall sit the foreign diplomats. At the far end of the hall, on a raised platform, is a set of pewlike enclosures. Men and women are also taking their places in these pews: they are the functionaries of the Supreme Soviet, its Presidium, ministers and secretaries...
...Stalin economic theory" of full emphasis on heavy (i.e., war) industry. On the same day, the Moscow newspapers carried two sentences on their back pages announcing Mikoyan's resignation from the Ministry of Trade. Nothing was said about his giving up his place on the Party Presidium or his job as a Deputy Premier, but more may be heard of that at the meeting of the Supreme Soviet...
...Soviet citizens, while the fourth, Premier Kim II Sung, is a Russian puppet of long standing. Of the seven Deputy Premiers, six belong to the Russian-controlled "Soviet faction," while only one pays allegiance to the "Yenan faction," as the Red China side is called. Of the 15-man Presidium, ten members are "Soviets" against only two "Yenans" and three local North Korean Reds. Even culturally, the Chinese are in eclipse (Pyongyang high-school students have to spend one hour a day learning Russian...
...Formosa, where he is now regarded as a renegade, there was bitter resentment among men who stayed on. Others charged that he was trying to forestall a supreme court probe of charges of irregularities in his conduct as governor. The Assembly's 85-man presidium snapped: "The presidium views with utter contempt K. C. Wu's action and utterances, which it considers as giving aid and comfort to the Communists, inasmuch as he is . . . in the sanctuary of a foreign country, smearing and attacking the government [with] malicious propaganda...
Host Molotov was plainly irritated at his fellow party Presidium member, First Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich, who, despite repeated shushings, insisted on proposing toast after toast, while waspish Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan heckled him from the side. At one point Kaganovich, a former Ukrainian commissar, called the company's attention to "the great friendship of all peoples of the So viet Union," listing the Soviet states with one pointed omission. "What about the Georgians?" snapped Armenian Mikoyan, an old friend of Georgian Lavrenty Beria who had been arrested four months before. "Oh yes," said Kaganovich without enthusiasm, "the Georgians...