Word: vladimires
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Byrnes had an hour alone with Molotov-and presumably with Molotov's indispensable man, Translator Vladimir ("Pinky") Pavlov. Next day the Big Four had a cozy lunch with a mere handful of aides present. The only news that came out was that the conferees ate beefsteak...
...Brailowsky is in the top ten of pianists but ranks below masters like Artur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz both in prestige and at the box office. But in South America he outdraws them all, and Latin women bombard him with flowers and kisses. Tickets for a Brailowsky concert bring black-market prices. Says Brailowsky: "There is the line like you saw here for nylon stockings...
Aside from the usual run of Soviet propaganda, nothing newsworthy happened except the discovery, by Molotov's translator, Vladimir N. ("Pinky") Pavlov, of a word the Russians seem to have been groping for. In a meeting of the Big Four to consider restrictions on the veto, the word "majorization" was born. "Majorization," as the Western diplomats get it, is the deplorable tendency to reach international decisions by majority vote. Molotov preferred a businesslike approach, which would please the minority as well as the majority. So did everyone else, but little progress on how to achieve that goal with...
...time to elect a new "Black Pope." Since 1942, when Polish Father Vladimir Ledochowski died, the Society of Jesus had been without a General. By last week, almost all the 200 electors had assembled in Rome for the Society's 29th General Congregation...
Hillbilly Government. But surprises are unlikely. The Proconsul has summarily silenced dissenters. Sporadic stabs of opposition still come from Yugoslavia's new Partisans (mostly followers of exiled Croatian Peasant Leader Vladimir Macek), who have taken to the hills. But the mass of anti-Communist Yugoslavs are leaderless. The middle class is being systematically liquidated, since ration cards are issued only to workers (says the model Constitution: "He who does not contribute to the community may not receive from it"). Almost all businesses are confiscated by the simple device of convicting the owners of collaboration with the Germans. The Catholic...