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Four weeks after V-E day, General of the Army Dwight David Eisenhower and Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had finally headed for Berlin. There they would sit down with Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, their opposite number from the Red Army, and open the long delayed first meeting of the Allied Control Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Long Road | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...your information: Grigori and Georgi are two distinct Russian names. The first corresponds to Gregory in English and the second to George. And calling Marshal Zhukov Georgi is just about the same as calling George Washington Gregory Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 4, 1945 | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...Marshal's full name is Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov. Pravda, Izvestia and Red Star, which rarely, if ever, use first names, call him G. K. Zhukov. Foreign correspondents in Moscow, stumped by the G. K. when Zhukov first made important war news, decided to call him Gregory, have more or less stuck to (or been stuck with) it since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 4, 1945 | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

Wrote Comrade E. Zhukov of Izvestia: "Lovers of statistics declare that the amount of drinks consumed at journalistic cocktail parties are in direct proportion to the astronomical number of words transmitted from San Francisco. . . . Foreign journalists of progressive views-especially if they work for the so-called big press-express more radical views among their colleagues than they do in writing. This is not [their] fault. . . . It is the natural result of a system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS: The Great American People | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...Comrade Zhukov was disturbed by the cynicism of American journalists: "I hasten to assure [them]-Americans do not read only flat jokes on the pages of comic supplements. They read articles. Even on Sundays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS: The Great American People | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

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