Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lexington Avenue subway Bender rode up to 68th Street. He walked into a stone mansion at 680 Park Avenue. Some children, playing in the hall, shouted "Zdravstvuite," Russian for "Hello." The mansion was the Soviet U.N. delegation's headquarters. Bender presented Dr. Jes-sup's letter...
There was momentary confusion; Malik's letter was written in Russian. Aides found a translator. Finally, Jessup got on the telephone. He passed the word to Cadogan and Chauvel that Malik had agreed to meet with them. The first meeting of Four Power spokesmen since last winter's fruitless discussions in Geneva on the subject of the Berlin blockade was set for 12:30 the next...
...into the elevator. In Jessup's modest green and brown office, American, Briton and Frenchman had only a few minutes' wait. At 12:31 the door to Jessup's office was thrown open. There, nodding, was burly Yakov Malik, his smile the beaming equivalent of the Russian for "Hello...
...scene by his firmness and boldness, and emerged as the rock-solid symbol of Western determination. Though his first fleeting reaction to the Berlin blockade was an impulse to ram through with an armored convoy, he had steered clear of blunders that could have brought a shooting war. With Russian capitulation on the Berlin blockade, the way to civilian control of the occupation was as clear as it would ever...
Russia, thought the best guessers, has two ways in which it can seek its end. The first is to press for a four-power control setup with a Russian veto over German affairs (including the Ruhr). The second, and far more effective way, is to win German sympathies and establish conditions favorable to Communism. The Russians can warble a Lorelei song to woo German nationalism, as they have consistently done since war's end, by passing themselves off as champions of German unity...