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...Russians last week fired their biggest gun yet in their new peace offensive. In a letter to President Truman, Russia's President Nikolai Shvernik proposed a five-power pact for disarmament and "for the strengthening of peace." Wrote Shvernik (a figurehead who rarely makes the front pages): "I take this occasion to request you to transmit to the American people my greetings and good wishes from the people of the Soviet Union . . ." He added pointedly: "A most important step must be the elimination of discrimination with regard to the Soviet Union on the part of the American authorities...
...Nikolai Shvernik (hands folded after concluding the opening speech), once a metal-turner, now President of the Supreme Soviet...
...body was sent to Sofia last week, Pravda wrote: ". . . 23 hours 20 minutes: J. V. Stalin enters the hall. With him, placing themselves in a guard of honor, are Comrades G. M. Malenkov, L. P. Beria, K. E. Voroshilov, L. M. Kaganovich, A. I. Mikoyan, N. M. Shvernik, N. A. Bulganin...
...from her declared: "India has a special link with the Soviet Union, since both India and Russia have shown a capacity to blend and harmonize different races and civilizations." Her softly modulated voice was saved for private Kremlin chats with Chairman of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Shvernik and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky. Though her appointment was approved by George VI and she is officially His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador, Mrs. Pandit has always been popular with the Russians for her consistently anti-British line. As India's U.N. representative, her sharp-tongued...
...Left to right: Marshal S. M. Budenny; Colonel General K. A. Vershinin; Marshal I. S. Konev; Marshal A. M. Vasilevsky, Chief of Staff; Marshal L. A. Govorov; N. A. Bulganin, Deputy War Minister; Zhdanov; N. A. Voznesensky, Chairman of State Planning Commission; N. M. Shvernik, Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet; G. M. Popov, Party Secretary; A. N. Kosygin, Vice Chairman of Council of Ministers; M. F. Shkiryatov, Member of Presidium of Supreme Soviet; N. S. Patolichev, Party Secretary; A. V. Khrulev, Vice Minister of Armed Forces; A. A. Kuznetsov, Party Secretary...