Word: stepanov
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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There was other disturbing Russian news for Japan. Paper-short Moscow had allowed 700 pages for a novel by Alexander Stepanov called Port Arthur. Not only Japanese eyebrows might be raised by the book's description of Port Arthur (which is in Manchuria, and hence claimed by China) as a leading Russian port on the Pacific...
Among the gentlemen present were Chiang Kai-shek's Finance Minister Dr. H. H. ("Daddy") Rung, Canada's Ilsley, Mexico's Suarez, Netherlands' Beyen, Russia's Stepanov, Iran's Ebtehaj. No one knew last week how they would line up; most of the preliminary skirmishing between the British and the Americans in the Battle of the Blueprints has taken place under cover. The first open blow was struck last spring by John Maynard Keynes, First Baron Tilton, with a proposal that in effect would give the British dominance in world currency arrangements. The second...