Word: zorin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above all. the endlessly reiterated statements for the record. Snapped U.S Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, after a recent attack on the U.S. delivered by burly Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov: "Having been here almost four years and heard the speeches of the late Mr. Vishinsky, of Mr. Gromyko. Mr. Zorin and Mr. Sobolev. I can only conclude, after hearing Mr. Shepilov's speech today, that the man who writes the speeches is still the same...
...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...
...teaching job. In 1941 he was assigned to the Soviet Foreign Office, and two years later he was head of the division dealing with central Europe. His biggest coup took place in 1948, when he masterminded the Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia. While maintaining a smiling relationship with President Benes, Zorin gathered together a team of Moscow-trained Communists and helped to organize the "action committees" that bored into every section of Czech life. After the coup he returned to Moscow, but was back in Prague three years later to supervise the liquidation of Rudolf Slansky and a score of other...
...when Zorin went to New York as chief Soviet delegate to the U.N., he wore plain grey business suits and horn-rimmed spectacles, and gold flashed in his smile. Said a newsman: "He could pass for a middle-aged banker at an executives' convention." Plain Mrs. Zorin wore mink. Despite such appearances, Zorin's attacks on the U.S. were ruthless and uncompromising...
...Bonn last week, Zorin moved into the Villa Hentzen, onetime home of a 19th century Cologne millionaire, on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Chancellor Adenauer's home. But a mile upstream he had carpenters working feverishly, repairing an old hotel for his staff of 45 Russians, who are also part of the devil's bargain...