Word: zorin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Germany only momentarily happy. Last week, as perhaps the last installment of prisoners came back from Soviet slave camps, Adenauer got his Russian: 53-year-old Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin, first Soviet Ambassador to West Germany...
Softspoken, grey-haired Zorin has the diplomatic manner, often makes cracks about uncultured and unimportant comrades, deftly turns difficult conversation into innocuous channels when it suits him. Said a German diplomat who met him last week: "If you didn't know differently, you would think he was from Denmark or Sweden, or perhaps Canada. His face is animated and kind." In short, Zorin is one of the few Russian diplomats who is readily distinguishable from his bodyguard. But behind the kind, animated exterior of Valerian Zorin lies one of the deadliest minds in diplomacy...
...secret, informal meetings, delegates of the Big Five had considered -among others-the name of Erik Boheman, Sweden's Ambassador to the U.S. Boheman said that he did not want the job, but his name had been in the air just long enough for Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin to hint that perhaps Russia might accept a Swede in order to get rid of Norway's Trygve Lie. French Delegate Henri Hoppenot took the cue, submitted the name of Dag Hammarskjöld (see box). So little known was he that State Department officials had to scurry about...
...next day Zorin announced that the Soviet Union would support Hammarskjöld. That afternoon, in formal session, the Council swiftly voted 10 to o (with Nationalist China abstaining because Sweden has recognized Red China) to recommend Hammarskjöld to the Assembly. It was the first time since the beginning of the Korean truce talks in July 1951 that East and West had agreed on anything as important in U.N. affairs...
...apart from all this," said an expert on Russia recently, "Mr. Zorin is a pleasant...