Word: maximovich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stop Hitler alliance between Britain, France and Soviet Russia. Soon afterwards in Moscow, able, lively British Ambassador Sir William Seeds went to the Kremlin to present his Government's views to Premier Viacheslav Molotov, also Foreign Commissar since the retirement last month of the veteran Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...Warsaw from a much publicized diplomatic swing to Ankara, Sofia and Bucharest went Vladimir Potemkin, the U.S.S.R.'s Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Retired Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and Colonel Beck always rubbed each other the wrong way. Colonel Beck had not talked diplomatic matters over with a Russian since 1934. But Comrade Potemkin was different...
...British and French diplomacy had just suffered a shock from the retirement of anti-Fascist Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff as Russia's Foreign Commissar (see p. 22). The suspicion was well-founded that the Soviet Union had suddenly become disinterested in a Stop-Hitler alliance with the West. On the floor of the British House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had to answer angry charges from Opposition M. P.s that he had been "dilatory" in seeking a tie-up with the Soviet Union. Most pugnacious was peppery old David Lloyd George, Wartime Prime Minister, who wanted to know...
...Soviet Foreign Commissariat. Amid all the shifts, purges and disappearances of Soviet officials, the Foreign Commissariat's topmost personnel has remained so constant that in 21 years since the proletarian revolution Soviet Russia has had only two Foreign Commissars: Georgy Vasilievich Chicherin, from 1918 to 1930 and Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, his successor...
Above the reception room mantel was a stone-hewn hammer & sickle and a portrait of Dictator Stalin. Drinking champagne, but not touching the bountiful caviar and vodka, Mr. Chamberlain stood below a portrait of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff all evening, talked with Comrade Maisky for a half hour, departed at n p.m., whereupon the orchestra began to swing...