1953 Press Photo Mass of Picketers With Signs in New York Protesting Soviets

A mass of pickets with signs, many recalling the short lived alliance of Russia and Hitler's Nazi Germany, welcomed Soviet Foreign Minister Andrel Vishinsky Monday when he arrived in New York aboard the liner Queen Mary for Tuesday's opening of the United Nations general assembly. As Vishinsky was leaving the dock he waved and replied, via an aide, "No news is the best news" when reporters asked for a statement. One of the pickets' signs, partly visible, referred to Joachim von Ribbentrop, former German foreign minister, who was hanged at Nuremberg in 1946 as a war criminal, and warned Vishinsky "the same knot awaits you." Other signs said such things as "Communism Is Death to Freedom," "Vishinsky, the Murderer of Nations," "Protest Soviet Genocide" and "Stop Soviet Butchery Behind Iron Curtain."

Photo is dated 1953.

Photo measures 9.25 x 6.25 inches.