Word: feonov
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Danube to the Danubian people," cried Yugoslavia's Krasovec, with a strident isolationism reminiscent of U.S. Midwest Senators in 1915. Russia's Nikolai Feonov generalized the anti-trade point into a principle in his criticism of an ECOSOC report calling for the economic coordination of Europe. He found that it "tends to favor the still greater development of highly developed countries." He presaged Molotov's warning that free trade destroyed the independence of weaker countries, adding: "I, for instance, believe that bilateral agreements are for the time being the best...
...especially important because a school of thought has recently bobbed up in London and Washington which holds that even if we cannot now get along with Russia politically we could successfully make economic arrangements with her and her stooge states which would lead to political accord. Apparently Molotov, Feonov & friends do not agree...
...Soviet delegate, an economist named Nikolai Feonov, told a Russianized version of Aesop's fable about the wolf and the lamb, in which the lamb retorted to the wolf's accusations with such vexingly clever answers that the wolf finally ate the lamb for its impertinence. The lamb, of course, was the Soviet Union, the wolf...
Nevertheless, other delegates to the 18-nation Economic & Social Council (called ECOSOC* for short) found Feonov an easier man to deal with than such wolf-eating lambs as Molotov, Vishinsky and Gromyko. Feonov actually promoted shirtsleeved sessions in smoke-filled hotel rooms in an effort to break impasses on the council floor. But he could not break the bonds of Russian policy...
...promptly balked. The issue was raised by U.N.'s Economic & Social Council in an awesome, 450-page report on Europe's economy. Recommended: integration of Europe's economy under an all-European Economic Commission (in effect, an economic United States of Europe). Russian Delegate Nikolai I. Feonov denounced the plan as "not very desirable to Russia," implied that it was a capitalist plot "to make good profits...