Word: second-in-command
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Their first greeting from 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...
Died. General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, 56, German tank expert who earned the title of "Butcher of Guernica" in the Spanish Civil War, was Rommel's onetime second-in-command of the Afrika Korps and achieved high rank on the Yugoslavs' war-criminal list for his massacres in Serbia; of a heart attack; in Söcking, Germany...
...failure to seize & hold the initiative. Next to Marshall himself, there was no one better qualified to understand that record, and explain it, than Bob Lovett. As Under Secretary, he had been for the past nine months the prime executor of U.S. policy. As Marshall's second-in-command, and Acting Secretary for the 129 days that Marshall had been away from his post, Lovett had also carried the load of day-to-day decisions. His career as Under Secretary of State spanned three stages in the evolution of U.S. policy...
...Sachsenhausen prisoners, ranged in two rows in a playpen-like dock, made no attempt to deny their crimes. Some of them, doubtless under Russian influence, talked like the accused in 1937 purge trials. "I got into this net of criminality," said dark, intense August Hoehn, the camp second-in-command. (In one day, Hoehn had hanged, gassed and shot 510 prisoners in petulance over a superior's rebuke.) "I got so tangled in its strands, I couldn't go back. At the mere thought I could feel the cold barrel of a pistol on my neck...
...Umberto ("The Brain") Terracini is Togliatti's lean, charming second-in-command. He is the very model of double-breasted fastidiousness; when he succeeded Saragat as Assembly president and prepared to take over his official residence, a conversation took place which would have shocked less cultured Communists...