Word: tevosyan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Ivan Fedorovich Tevosyan, 56, U.S.S.R. Ambassador to Japan, former Deputy Premier and onetime Minister of the Metallurgical Industry...
...such an atmosphere two foreign ambassadors arrived in Tokyo to take up their duties. The first was black-mustached Ivan Fedorovich Tevosyan, Russia's first postwar ambassador to Japan, who was greeted at the airport only by a minor Foreign Office official and a handful of Communists and left-wingers. The second was Douglas MacArthur II. veteran State Department official whose illustrious uncle is well remembered in Japan. Ambassador MacArthur got a full official welcome at the airport, in a demonstration that was swelled by left-wingers with unwelcoming placards: "Give Back Okinawa...
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