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...Moscow, as an outspoken friend of the Soviet Union and a onetime husband of the widow of its U. S. Hero John Reed, Ambassador Bullitt quickly became the most favored of capitalist envoys. On the understanding that Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff had promised President Roosevelt that Russia would buy great quantities of U. S. goods in return for recognition, Ambassador Bullitt made plans for a $1,200,000 Embassy, which Congress on the same understanding had authorized, awaited the Red trade orders which would cement the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in bonds of commercial...
...Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Soviet spokesman at Montreux, was 60 years old last week. Because in Bolshevik theory a Foreign Commissar is a most unimportant character, not to be compared with such weighty men as Defense Commissar Voroshilov or Commissar of Transportation Andreyev, photographs of rotund Commissar Litvinoff are practically non-existent in Russia. Millions of good Communists do not even know of his existence. As a birthday present Joseph Stalin decided last week that his Foreign Commissar had been neglected long enough. To him the Red dictator sent the rosette of the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet decoration...
...cynicism of the week much relished by the Montreux diplomats was a British proposal to be allowed to take through the Dardanelles 15,000 additional tons of war boats "for humanitarian purposes." Asked Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff: "What is the meaning of humanitarian...
...Montreux, only a few miles up the Lake of Geneva from the sparkling new League of Nations buildings, the Conference opened last week with extreme Swiss police precautions against assassination of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, onetime traveling salesman, and Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras. onetime male midwife. From London came the 7th Earl Stanhope, product of Eton, Oxford and the Grenadier Guards. He was sent to capitulate to Turkey at Montreux because British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, has the job of capitulating to Italy down the lake in Geneva this week...
Died. Maxim Gorki (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov), 68, Red Russia's Grand Old Man of Letters; of tuberculosis and grippe; in his villa near Moscow. Turned out of his grandfather's house at 9, he became a ragpicker, a scullery boy, a sailor, bitterly described Old Russia in short stories, novels (The Outcasts, Comrades, Mother), his celebrated play The Lower Depths. Imprisoned and exiled by the Tsar on Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905), he returned in 1914, served as a private in the War. He supported the moderate Kerensky regime, thunderously opposed the Bolsheviki, reluctantly accepted a Government post...