Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizen, had learned the impossibility of dealing with Communists. He became one of the most determined and able opponents of Soviet meddling and delay in Japan. MacArthur appointed him chairman of the Allied Council for Japan and recommended him for the rank of Ambassador. George Atcheson's major job on the day his plane crashed: pushing through a Japanese peace treaty despite Russian obstructionism...
Free for 30 days on a $20,000 bond, while his attorneys filed motions for a new trial, Soviet Agent Eisler had a curious comment on justice. Said he: "It was a fair trial on a very unfair indictment...
Said U.S. Delegate Herschel Vespasian Johnson in the Security Council last week: "Greece's right to exist is involved. . . . The continued failure of the Security Council to take effective action in this case because of the Soviet veto cannot . . . preclude individual or collective action by states willing...
...studied economics, got a master's degree in 1936, and lectured at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 1939, he was abruptly appointed head of the American section of the Russian Foreign Office, thence was sent into the thick of high & low diplomacy, as counselor at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. These were dangerous times, and Molotov. decided finally to keep the old-line, ex-Menshevik diplomats (Maisky, Troyanovsky Sr., Surits et al.) from further advancement, push a younger and more reliable set to the fore. Thus, in 1943, succeeding Western-minded Maxim Litvinoff, Gromyko walked into the Oval...
Died. Princess Hermine, 59, who married Germany's late exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, a year after the death of his Kaiserin, Augusta Victoria; reportedly of acute tonsilitis and a heart ailment; in Frankfurt an der Oder, Soviet zone of Germany. Soon after her death, rumors spread that more than $500,000 worth of the Princess' crown jewels had been stolen. Suspicious U.S. Army authorities asked the apparently uninquisitive Russians to perform an autopsy (to find out if someone had put something in Hermine's tea), then decided to drop the investigation: "It is definitely...