Word: shtykov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Russians apparently felt that the moment was near. Colonel General Terenty F. Shtykov, chief Russian delegate to the Joint Commission, said that if U.S. forces would withdraw from their zone at the beginning of 1948, "then the Soviet troops will be ready to leave Korea simultaneously." Translated from the Russian, this was another way of saying: Let us both leave the lamb to the butcher. Cried Moderate Leader Kim Kyh Sik, chairman of the Korean Interim Legislative Assembly: if the U.S. withdrew, "North Koreans would sweep down like red lava, cover South Korea and end Korea...
...Russians still talked optimism. Said Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, head of the Russian delegation to the Joint Commission: "There is no stalemate that may not be broken." Everybody wondered how and when the break would come...
Facing each other across the green-covered table sat the two heads of the Joint Commission for Korea, lean, blue-jawed U.S. Major General Albert E. Brown, and a bulky, red-faced Russian, Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, who had stubbornly represented the Russians at last year's meeting. They were a pair...
...Shtykov tells this story on himself: "When I was a boy, I was known as the worst boy in town. I used to bite people. One day my old grandmother was sitting weaving a sandal. Suddenly I bit her. She threw me over her knees and beat me with the sandal until my backside ran red with blood. Then I never bit anybody any more. I became the best boy in town...
Hard Question. Reformed Biter Shtykov and his colleagues on the commission had some heavy chewing to do on what seemed an indigestible Korean political situation. How, for instance, could the occupiers deal with Korea's welter of 200 political groups? Wearily commented a U.S. official: "There are three times more people registered for party membership in Korea than there is population in the country...