Word: chicherin
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...peaceful rhetoric from the West, "One must distinguish between words and deeds." That advice has always applied particularly to the U.S.S.R. Soviet foreign policy has been marked by tactical retreats and no- more-Mr.-Tough-Guy public relations campaigns before. In 1919 Vladimir Lenin cautioned his Foreign Minister, Georgi Chicherin, who was preparing to address an international conference in Genoa, "Never mind the hard language." Lenin pursued conciliatory policies toward Poland and the then independent Baltic states. By the 1940s, those nations had all been brutally incorporated into the Soviet empire...
...Chicherin called me in and protested that Colonel McCormick "addresses me as an equal power-I cannot accept ultimatums from him." I was expelled from Russia immediately. Spewack, Francis McCullough of the Herald and Percy Noel of the Philadelphia Ledger, were expelled or left the same week...
...York World, two others and myself smuggled out news through the American Relief diplomatic pouch. We were caught when the Soviets broke the treaty and opened the mailbags. At this time Colonel McCormick sent his famous "ultimatum" to the Soviet government; addressed to Foreign Affairs Minister Chicherin, it read...
...Bloomington Daily Pantagraph, owned by his mother's family. He still owns a quarter-interest in that prosperous county paper, and gets most of his income from it. After he got his degree from Northwestern, he went to Russia in an effort to interview Russian Foreign Minister Chicherin, who had refused to talk to foreign correspondents. No interview, but an interesting trip...
Sardines, Dimes, Cheese. After the war, Jo took off for Russia, hoping to fill out his plastic history with a bust of Lenin. He never got Lenin, but he got a host of influential underlings. When Foreign Minister Chicherin, who lived in great splendor, heard that Karl Radek, who lunched off sardines on newspaper,* was being sculpted, Chicherin remarked to Jo: "What a curious man, Radek. Why does he go on living in such squalor? . . . After all, there has been the revolution." "He is a curious man, Chicherin," confided Radek. "Look at the way he lives. You would never know...