Word: sobolev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey, upholstered chairs behind their microphones sat the delegates to the U.N. Subcommittee on disarmament: the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Harold Stassen, Britain's Anthony Nutting, France's Jules Moch, Canada's Paul Martin and the Soviet Union's Arkady A. Sobolev. Before them on the U-shaped table lay the problem that had teased and baffled the subcommittee through 50 gainless sessions in twice as many gainless months: how to control the production and the use of arms...
...befitted the spirit of Geneva, the demeanor of the delegates in the U.N.'s basement was hopeful. Ambassador Lodge believed that "mankind's yearning for a lessening of the tensions which flow in part from huge growing armaments can be achieved." Russia's Sobolev said that he was ready "to cooperate ... in the solution of these important tasks which brook no delay." But when the Russians were asked to say whether they would accept or reject the U.S. plan, smiling and agreement ceased...
Russian Delegate Arkady Sobolev warned that Russia's vote was only intended to "record its approval of the idea" of international atomic cooperation and that the program had "serious shortcomings" which must be the subject of "further negotiations." But he voted aye. "An historic moment," said U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...