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Mere Coincidence. Inevitably, the U.S.S.R. moved to capitalize on this uneasiness among the world's free nations. In London, Valerian Zorin, Russian delegate to the U.N. Subcommittee on Disarmament renewed the Soviet "offer" to abandon H-bomb tests if the U.S. and Britain would do likewise. As usual, however, the men in the Kremlin were working both sides of the street. Two days before Zorin's statement, the Russians exploded a nuclear weapon of their own. It was the fifth (and one of biggest) Russian nuclear explosion in two weeks-explosions which, by curious coincidence, came hard...
...turned out a special order of $8,214.15 worth of crockery for Marshal Tito's wedding. Before Eisenhower left Berlin in 1948, his staff gave him a 130-piece Rosenthal set inscribed with the flaming-sword insignia of SHAEF. Not to be outdone by Western capitalists, Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin in Bonn last week ordered an $800 Rosenthal dinner service-the company's biggest Red china sale since Tito's nuptials...
Germany only momentarily happy. Last week, as perhaps the last installment of prisoners came back from Soviet slave camps, Adenauer got his Russian: 53-year-old Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin, first Soviet Ambassador to West Germany...
...didn't know differently, you would think he was from Denmark or Sweden, or perhaps Canada. His face is animated and kind." In short, Zorin is one of the few Russian diplomats who is readily distinguishable from his bodyguard. But behind the kind, animated exterior of Valerian Zorin lies one of the deadliest minds in diplomacy...
...gates, holding their torches aloft in welcome. The queues of costumed party guests, who had been carefully screened by attendants assigned to bar gatecrashers, filed in. Biarritz' Chiberta Country Club was in ornate fancy dress for the occasion, made up in false front by New York decorator Valerian Rybar to look like an iSth century chateau. The 2,000-odd guests, including some 50 princes, 20 dukes, 95 counts, 35 marquesses and one sad and shopworn King (Peter of Yugoslavia), were all supposed to dress in the same (circa 1750) style, but many seemed as vague about their century...