Word: yakov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into public life was certain to enter him in his colleagues' history books. Hardly had he settled down in his small paneled office in the State Department before he was making undercover trips to Manhattan to work out the settlement of the Berlin blockade with Russia's Yakov Malik. In the pale-pink glow of hopefulness that followed, he served Acheson as alternate chief of delegation at the Paris four-power conference, proved to himself once again that the Russians had altered their basic strategy not one whit...
...Park Avenue, headquarters for the U.S. delegation to U.N. There at his desk he wrote a letter. He was Dr. Philip Jessup, onetime college professor and the State Department's top negotiator. He gave the letter to an aide, Albert Bender, to deliver to Yakov Malik, of the Russian U.N. delegation...
...Cadogan threaded their way through the crush and into the elevator. In Jessup's modest green and brown office, American, Briton and Frenchman had only a few minutes' wait. At 12:31 the door to Jessup's office was thrown open. There, nodding, was burly Yakov Malik, his smile the beaming equivalent of the Russian for "Hello...
...headquarters at Lake Success, where representatives of the world's sovereign nations gather over Martinis or orange juice, was a handy place for a casual meeting. There, one day last February, the U.S.'s lanky negotiator, Philip Jessup, fell into conversation with Russia's barrel-chested Yakov Malik. From that conversation, the U.S. learned last week, came the series of talks which brought the first break in the cold war in months: the Russians were prepared to abandon the blockade of Berlin. The end of the Berlin airlift, a historic employment of air power as a weapon...
...brief dispatch by the Tass news agency, noted coldly that various reports about a possible lifting of the Berlin blockade had been spread in the "foreign press." To refute incorrect rumors, Tass deemed it necessary to set down "the facts as they are." Russia's U.N. Delegate Yakov Malik and U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup had been conducting talks on the subject of Berlin. According to Tass, the first of these conversations had taken place last February, the last almost two weeks...