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...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...
...Malik's place will be taken by a man who promises to be no better: Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin, 50, who earned his greatest diplomatic laurels as Soviet Ambassador to Prague from 1945 to 1947. U.S. Intelligence men credit him with supervising the Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia. For his services, he was awarded the Czech Order of the White Lion. U.S. diplomats remember him principally for his appearance at a 1947 session of the United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe, where he stubbornly opposed every American plan to bring aid to war-devastated areas...
...apart from all this," said an expert on Russia recently, "Mr. Zorin is a pleasant...
...their hosts was a bucket of cold water: the Soviet Foreign Office reported that Molotov was "out of town," on vacation. His second-in-command, Andrei Vishinsky, was also out of town-indisputably in Belgrade (see Conferences). Would the Westerners care to see the third-in-command, one Valerian Zorin? They would. One by one they saw Zorin, and though they left aide-mémoire, they said emphatically that they wanted to see Molotov. Thereupon, from wherever he was resting his drop-forged constitution, Molotov came back to Moscow...
...Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee found itself listening to Russia's Valerian A. Zorin. Next year's U.N. conference on freedom of press & information, said he, should crack down on the "warmongering" press. He left the Committee a nine-point Soviet resolution to chew on. Meanwhile, Delegate Vishinsky treated some 300 members of the working press to further charges of warmongering...