Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia, Berliners said, Stalin was celebrating "politeness week," and had called all Muscovites together in Red Square to tell them about it. Suddenly, in the midst of his speech, a sneeze was heard. "Who sneezed?" asked the dictator. No one answered. "Very well," said Stalin to Secret Police Chief Beria, "shoot everyone in the first row." When that was done the dictator asked again: "Who sneezed?" No answer. "Shoot everyone in the second row." Finally, when the smell of gunpowder had drifted away a second time, a timid character rose diffidently in the third row. "C-c-c-omrade Stalin...
...Moscow. The President's way of behaving himself was to end, once & for all, any speculation that he might be thinking of another "Vinson mission" to Moscow. There would be no negotiations with Russia, he said, while Russia blockaded Berlin. He would be happy to talk to Stalin, he added, but only if Stalin came to Washington (highly unlikely...
...Washington Times-Herald, eager Tristram Coffin* wanted to start off with a bang. One day last week, the former CBS correspondent came out with the loudest report he could think of: that Harry Truman might go to Moscow. "A relaxed, feet-on-the-chair session with Joseph Stalin is part of the program," wrote Coffin...
Then came some dashes of cold water. A presidential press secretary told newsmen that no such meeting was planned, although the President's invitation to Stalin to come to Washington was still open. And in Paris, Secretary of State George C. Marshall implied that such reports as Coffin's merely played into the hands of Soviet propagandists. The trouble with the tip-like all such tips out of Washington-was that readers could not tell whether it was irresponsible reporting or an irresponsible leak from an administration official. Coffin insisted that he had another call from a "close...
Died. Alexander Vasilievich Vishnevsky, 74, leading Soviet surgeon, holder of the Stalin Prize (for brilliant work in the treatment of wounds and shock) and the Order of Lenin; in Moscow...