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...Argument. Basic facts in the argument were set forth in TIME, Aug. 10. The first of Russia's public appeals for a second front came from Maxim Litvinoff 14 months ago. Four months ago Winston Churchill got around to acknowledging the second-front agitation, saying that he welcomed the "militant, aggressive spirit . . . and the general desire to come to the closest grips with the enemy." Three months ago London and Washington announced that full understanding had been reached "with regard to the urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe...
Wary, wise Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff sat in on at least one matinee discussion, emerged poker-faced. He was probably the only person outside the Big Two who was told all that had been decided. For the details remained secret. On Winston Churchill's return by bomber to Great Britain, a joint statement, finally recognizing the bad news pouring in, was issued...
Caviar and Thrillers. Reynolds was on the plane that brought Ambassadors Litvinoff and Steinhardt out of Russia. He picnicked with his companions on chicken legs, hard-boiled eggs, Madeira. He "borrowed a detective story from Mme. Litvinoff and read it while eating her lovely caviar sandwiches all the way from Kuibyshev to Teheran. Every fifteen minutes she'd say, 'Do you know who did it yet?' I would yell over the sound of the motors, 'No, and don't tell...
...Litvinoff- "definitely European." "An amazing man-big, jovial, affable, shrewd...
Under these circumstances, such agreements as were in the making this week were within the limits of the politically expedient. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull handed to Russia's Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and China's Foreign Minister T. V. Soong similar proposals for post-war economic collaboration* based on: 1) Article IV of the Atlantic Charter, providing for equal and free access to the world's raw materials; 2) Article 7 of the Lend-Lease agreement with the United Kingdom, providing for repayment of Lend-Lease materials in such a way as "to promote...