Word: litvinoff
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...Russians favor Vienna or Prague, which almost no one else wants. They have uncomfortable memories of Geneva, where Maxim Litvinoff once pleaded in vain for total disarmament and where the Soviet Union was bounced out of the League in 1939. But since these are hardly logical objections as of 1945, the Russians have indicated that they might just possibly consider Geneva, after...
...trucks. One such attempt netted $75,000, resulted in the death of 20 people when one of the comrades, in the heat of expropriation, tossed a bomb. Besides, the expropriated bank notes had been in large denominations, and all over Europe comrades (among them Soviet Foreign Vice Commissar Maxim Litvinoff) were jailed for passing the hot money...
...open, Russia asked for a week's delay. This was Blow No. 1. A little later, Blow No. 2 fell. The Russian representative was named. He was neither of the two men U.S. and British diplomats had expected, neither the Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinoff, nor Andrei Vishinsky. He was youngish (35) Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, who holds his first important post as Ambassador to the U.S., and who is only a little less inexperienced than Ed Stettinius...
...Hull, worn, harassed, irascible, complained at great length about his "damned detractors" of the press and radio. He let drop one tidbit of news: he had taken a plan for the future of Germany to Moscow, but it had been ruled off the conference agenda even though Eden and Litvinoff personally thought it was fine. But mostly old Mr. Hull harped on what are now clearly the two prime motivations of U.S. foreign policy...
...Ismay, thereby leading correspondents to the solemn, if obvious, conclusion that matters of military consequence stood high on the agenda. After some delay the Russians disclosed that Molotov was being advised by no lesser personages than Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov and onetime Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the U.S. Maxim Litvinoff...