Vishinsky

In the years just after the founding of the United Nations in 1945, when speeches from the lectern of the General Assembly and the Security Council were widely broadcast beyond the earphones of the diplomats on the floor, Mr. Sherry became known as the English-speaking voice of Andrei Y. Vishinsky, the Soviet delegate.

A 1962 article about Mr. Sherry in The New Yorker touched on his time translating Mr. Vishinsky in the late 1940s: “Although Sherry spoke with an almost aggressively American accent, the audience so easily identified the voice with the Russian fulminations that the secretary general himself” — Trygve Lie at the time — “started receiving letters that urged him to fire the Communist twin.”

“Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky spoke yesterday in tones that were in quick succession impassioned, angry, sarcastic, sardonic, pleading and furious,” The New York Times reported on Sept.

This was Malik, the man who wrecked the old United Nations and then became Foreign Minister after Vishinsky was murdered.

Walt Rostow, who was Lyndon Johnson's National Security Adviser, recalls how the late Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky "told a group of Americans that we deceived them on Korea."