Word: russia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia's Andrei Vishinsky was all unaccustomed smiles, good humor and friendliness during the first three days of the Big Four meeting in Paris. The mood carried over into the working week's one big social interlude-a state dinner given by French President Vincent Auriol for 40 top delegates and their wives. A military quartet played Debussy. Everybody wore evening clothes except Vishinsky, who showed up in a dark blue lounge suit. One of his aides apologized: "We worked so hard up to the last minute, the Minister had time only to change his shirt...
Fainsod will attempt to get first-hand information on conditions inside Russia by talking to Soviet refugees and DPs who have been in the USSR recently. He will be joined next week in Frankfurt, Germany, by Paul W. Friedrich '49, who will act as a special assistant...
...conference was approximately as follows: i) the Russians must give a clear guarantee of the West's rights in Germany; 2) the Russians must accept West Germany's democratic constitution as the basis for any all-German regime; 3) any political setup for Russia's Eastern Germany must be the result of free, Four-Power supervised elections; 4) the U.S. will not now agree to the withdrawal of occupation troops from Germany (although talk persisted that the U.S. might consider moving its troops to port cities and the French frontier...
...Greece, where the Red guerrillas were farther than ever from victory, Russia had taken a step toward liquidating a losing commitment: in talks with the Americans at Lake Success, Russia's Andrei Gromyko had tried to negotiate a cease-fire and general settlement for Greece. The West coolly declared that the proper place for further negotiations was U.N., that the Greek civil war could be "settled" only after the Communists stopped supplying the Greek rebels...
...Third General Assembly closed last week on a note of hope. It took credit for the fact that its soothing, pale-green lounge had provided a common meeting ground for the U.S.'s Philip Jessup and Russia's Jakov Malik when they began negotiating the Berlin blockade's end. Actually the job the Assembly had done was middling. It had (among other things) admitted Israel to U.N.; defeated a Latin American motion to lift the diplomatic boycott of Spain; again asked the Big Five to curb their veto. Perhaps the most significant measure-though it had little...