Word: smirnov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow at once sent beefy Ambassador Andrei Smirnov lumbering to tell him, almost mockingly, that West Germans ought to be pleased over the Soviet plan to get the British, French and U.S. occupation forces out of Berlin. According to drastically edited versions of the old man's outrage, he grimly and bitterly exchanged unpleasantries with his caller for an hour...
...rasped the Chancellor himself next evening at a state election rally in Munich, "that we look upon the forces of our Western allies at Berlin as defenders of freedom, and that it is of the greatest importance that they should remain there." But at an Indonesian embassy reception Smirnov told reporters: "We will give Berlin back to the Germans. I hope it will go quickly, the quicker the better. Everything will be settled by Christmas...
...Answer Needed. The chief effect of Moscow's guided missive was one the Russians probably had not foreseen. The day after the note was made public, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer called in Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov and spent two hours discussing it with him. What was all that talk of a demilitarized Germany and a German withdrawal from NATO? How, demanded Adenauer, did this square with suggestions to West Germany that, even without sacrificing her ties with the West, she might hope to enjoy "the spirit of Rapallo" (the Russo-Germany treaty...
...laughed Mr. Smirnov. "You are a Russian...
...Smirnov estimates Russian oil production has reached 950,000 bbls. a day, plus 160,000 bbls. a day from its satellites. With total Communist production at 1,110,000 bbls. daily, it is still less than one-tenth of the 11.7 million bbls. which the free world produces every day, and far short of even the U.S. daily production, of 6,400,000 bbls...