Word: tchitcherin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GEORG TCHITCHERIN (cheat-cher-'een), 55, is Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Onetime aristocrat and diplomat, he threw up his appointment in Berlin in 1905, associated himself with the Socialist movement, was banished from Germany in 1908, since when he has remained an ardent Bolshevist. During the War he was imprisoned in England whence he was expelled in 1917. returning to Russia in January, 1918. As Foreign Commissioner he has been noted for his suave touch and clever diplomacy in the conduct of the foreign affairs...
...Rakovsky, after a brief sojourn in Moscow, will proceed to Tokyo as Soviet Ambassador to Emperor Hirohito of Japan; for, being a friend of Lev Davidovitch (Leon) Trotzky and therefore identified with the opposition group, his boss, Foreign Commissar Jorge Tchitcherin (pronounced teachereen) prefers him out rather than in the country...
...train puffed out. M. Rosengolz and staff proceeded to Berlin where they were to confer with Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, now sojourning "for his health" in the western political cockpit...
...Whom are you watching for in Russia? Tchitcherin? He is broken and has failed. Litvinov's signature you cannot take. Stalin's signature you cannot. Trotsky's certainly you cannot...
Soviet Reply. Since Soviet Foreign Minister Tchitcherin is receiving treatment at a German spa, it was Acting Foreign Minister Litvinov who replied to Britain...