Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have very bad English," the ambassador began. He smiled pleasantly. A newsreel man assured him that his English was better than Molotov's. If that flattered him, he did not show it. But he managed to get out that he had been Soviet ambassador to China from 1939 to 1944, that his wife, Ekaterina, would join him in January...
...think American newspaper attacks on the Soviet had been unfair? He couldn't say anything about that. "But you do hope to promote better relations between the two countries?" Panyushkin's answer: "Everything is possible under...
...carried his own black bread and Russian white wine, that he had caviar with his dinner and that he was a good tipper (amounts unspecified). When newsmen got through with him, Ambassador Panyushkin was taken in charge by a State Department representative, the Russian Consul General and six Soviet attach...
...White House and State Department chief of protocol, who welcomes every new chief of mission to Washington. Three days later Panyushkin presented his credentials to Acting Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett, conversed twelve minutes with him. Facing reporters once again, he was asked about the state of U.S.-Soviet relations. "It is a duty of all ambassadors," he replied, through an interpreter, "to try to have normal reciprocal relations...
...Roerich, who left Russia at the time of the Revolution, gets faint praise in the Soviet Encyclopedia (1944), though many Roerich paintings still hang in Russian museums. Says the Encyclopedia: "His art is very decorative. His subject matter is taken out of legends, and he treats it in a religio-mystical reactionary style...