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...from their hosts was a bucket of cold water: the Soviet Foreign Office reported that Molotov was "out of town," on vacation. His second-in-command, Andrei Vishinsky, was also out of town-indisputably in Belgrade (see Conferences). Would the Westerners care to see the third-in-command, one Valerian Zorin? They would. One by one they saw Zorin, and though they left aide-mémoire, they said emphatically that they wanted to see Molotov. Thereupon, from wherever he was resting his drop-forged constitution, Molotov came back to Moscow...
...Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee found itself listening to Russia's Valerian A. Zorin. Next year's U.N. conference on freedom of press & information, said he, should crack down on the "warmongering" press. He left the Committee a nine-point Soviet resolution to chew on. Meanwhile, Delegate Vishinsky treated some 300 members of the working press to further charges of warmongering...
Even the charge that Stalin poisoned Lenin is linked to the fact that during the Purge trials Stalin convicted his NKVD chief, Henry Yagoda, of poisoning Novelist Maxim Gorky and Soviet Control Commission Chairman Valerian Kuibyshev (as if President Truman were to charge FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover with poisoning the late Will Rogers and Chester Bowles). And two facts are indisputable: 1) a whole generation of Russian Communists was officially liquidated in circumstances that may gratify mankind's sense of poetic justice, but outrages its sense of human justice; 2) Trotsky was assassinated...
Killed in Action. Commando Captain Lord Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 31, 6th Duke of Wellington, fifth-generation descendant of Waterloo's victor; in a raid on northeastern Sicily. Army career man, veteran of Ethiopia, he inherited from his father titles that sounded the Napoleonic battle roll, some $1,000,000 in landed estates, the ancestral right of keeping his hat on in the King of Spain's presence...
Between 1921 and last week Samara had been renamed Kuibyshev, after Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev, who was head of the State Planning Commission and prime mover of the First Five-Year Plan when he died in 1935. The city had been refurbished, as the junction of important railroads joining Moscow, the Donets Basin and Siberia, as the location of an armature and carburetor factory famous throughout the U.S.S.R., as a cultural center with seven colleges, 18 technical schools, six scientific research institutes, six repertory theaters...