Word: spiridonovka
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Smiles flashed and vodka flowed in Moscow's Spiridonovka Palace one day last week. It was Soviet Foreign Minister Shepilov's way of welcome to his Japanese counterpart, one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, in honor of Shigemitsu's 69th birthday. Gallantly, Shepilov apologized for not having sukiyaki for his Japanese guests. "Your vodka and caviar," replied Shigemitsu graciously, "are as good as ever...
...marching along the path of Marx, Engels and Lenin." No one mentioned the name of Stalin. Afterwards, to the sound of loud speakers blaring Yugoslav folk songs and the cheers of tens of thousands of Russian onlookers, ex-Traitor Tito drove through Moscow to the Kremlin and then to Spiridonovka Palace, official residence of the new Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov. Observers, practiced in reading the temperature of Moscow's organized welcomes, judged this one to be only a degree or two less than that accorded India's Prime Minister Nehru last year...
...ornamented music room of Spiridonovka Palace in Moscow, the great gaunt Chancellor of West Germany clasped hands with the masters of Russia. It was the signal that Europe's bitterest enemies had grudgingly come to terms...
Fast & Frank. In the marbled, white-and-gold music room of Spiridonovka palace (once a Czarist millionaire's mansion), the antagonists faced off. Bulganin, flanked by Khrushchev and Molotov, sat with the morning sun at his back. Chancellor Adenauer, with Foreign Minister Brentano at his elbow, sat facing them...
...record now shows that at the time of the Spiridonovka party, another of his protégés, Armenian party Secretary Grigori A. Arutinov, political boss of Armenia since 1937, was being ousted. Some time later Mikoyan's trusted deputy in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, English-speaking Alexei D. Krutikov, was also expelled for "placing personal friendships above party and state interests," and the ministry was criticized for having covered up for Krutikov...