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Molotov's Food Taster Recounts Shipboard Meals
A. Gerald Parker, longtime Barclay Hotel manager, recalls serving as Molotov's food taster aboard the Queen Elizabeth in 1945. Molotov checked each course for poison, demanded his meals be tasted first, and praised two English dishes before seasickness sidelined him briefly.
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Associated Press
Barclay
New York
V.M. Molotov
Molotov
United Nations General Assembly
A. Gerald Parker
U.N. Assembly
Parker
England