Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither case was the effort at conformity more than superficial. The fate of the Old Bolshevik word "commissar" was just a finishing touch in Russia's new nationalism. Commented one U.S. diplomat: "Now they have everything back but the Czar...
...Anglo-Soviet-Iranian Treaty of Jan. 29, 1942 (to whose aims the U.S. later gave its blessing) pledged Britain and Russia to quit the country by March 2, 1946. When Britain and the U.S. last year sought to predate the deadline, Russian Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov acidly observed: "The Soviet Government is. guided strictly by the time limit established in the" 1942 treaty...
...also been busy in international politics. His relations with the British, if not cordial, were polite; the British had to think of their huge investment in Argentina. He had flirted with the Russians, and at the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov reportedly toyed with a Perón offer to enter diplomatic and trade negotiations, was persuaded that an attack on fascist Argentina was better international politics...
Died. Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin (pronounced pot-yom-kin), 68, former U.S.S.R. Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, whose tactful, pactful diplomacy was largely responsible for treaties with Italy (1933) and France (1935); after long illness; in Moscow. A revolution-minded mathematics teacher in Tsarist days, amiable polyglot (septilingual) Potemkin championed collective security, was Maxim Litvinoffs longtime right-hand...
...emigres listened longingly to Mother Russia's call. Somehow the gulf between Tsar and Commissar seemed not so vast any more. The years had made them more Russian than White, their children more Red than White. The homeland had mellowed, too. To prove it, Shanghai's Soviet consul general, hulking Nicholas S. Ananiev, gave a reception for emigre clergymen, showed them pictures of the election in Moscow of Metropolitan Alexei as Patriarch of all Russia...