Word: smirnov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deputies of the Foreign Ministers last week chewed a tired cud of procedural issues. Their sessions were placid enough, and utterly unproductive. The biggest question before them was whether the Austrian treaty could be put ahead of the German. The bland and affable Russian delegate, A. A. Smirnov, said...
Last week the deputies of the Big Four got down to preliminary work at Lancaster House. They were a professional crew: the U.S.'s political expert on Germany, Ambassador Robert D. Murphy; Patrick Dean of the British Foreign Office; Andrei A. Smirnov of Russia's Foreign Ministry; and France's career diplomat Jacques Tarbe de St. Hardouin. Their job was not to negotiate, merely to set' up the issues which Marshall, Bevin, Bidault and Molotov would consider...
...came in its wake. The humorous weekly, Crocodile, ran a cover cartoon of a man filling milk cans at a water pump. Each can bore the legend "100% fulfilled." The caption: "Chief milkmaid, or how Tovarish Figure-Chaser fulfills the plan." To make the picture still funnier, P. V. Smirnov, the head of Russia's meat and milk production, was promptly fired. But the comedy was still strictly official. For in Russia last week a full-fledged purge, affecting all departments of Soviet life, from the official manufacture of farm machines to the official manufacture of sonnets, was under...
...officers and privates had one of their frequent after-battle conferences swopping knowledge and correcting mistakes beside a campfire. There was Private Vyazmin, excitedly babbling to his officers instruction on how to improve trench-mortar fire; and Sergeant Smirnov, that joker among scouts, telling how he distracted and captured a German motorcyclist by tying a bunch of foliage to a long cord, dragging the foliage across the road...
Fortnight ago in Teheran Britain's Minister Sir Reader William Bullard, Soviet Ambassador M. A. Smirnov handed the Iranian Foreign Office a stiff note signed by both their Governments. Its substance : Iran must get rid of its overplus of Germans or else...