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World Jewry has always kept an uneasy eye on Russia's erratic treatment of Jews. Some of the early leaders of Communism (Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Litvinoff and Kaganovich) were Jews, but Stalin later made Jewish "cosmopolitanism" a dangerous charge. Russia competed with the U.S. to be the first to recognize the infant Israeli state in 1948-only to switch later to all-out support of the Arab quarrel against Israel. Today the 3,000,000 Jews who still live in Russia are warned to merge themselves completely in Soviet society (while still carrying documents designating them as Jews...
...Orlando, Fla. hospital where he last week married his second wife, Anna Enwright, widow of a Florida judge. Duranty became well acquainted with the Kremlin oligarchy (said he: "Moscow stands for progress"; said Stalin: "You have done a good job of reporting"), accompanied Foreign Affairs Commissar Maxim Litvinoff when he came to Washington in 1933 searching for U.S. recognition, later covered the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) from the Loyalist side...
...name much better known to the average American than to the average Russian. Gromyko's diplomatic career began as a rebuke to the U.S. when Stalin, withdrawing Maxim Litvinoff in 1943 as a protest against the absence of a second front, offhandedly made Litvinoff's 34-year-old secretary the Washington ambassador...
Died. Eliena Krylenko Eastman, 61, Polish-born Russian landscape painter, muralist and onetime (1921) secretary to Maxim Litvinoff (then Vice Commissar of Soviet Foreign Affairs), sister of Nikolai Krylenko, onetime Soviet chief prosecutor who was purged in 1938, and wife of oldtime socialist Max (Reflections on the Failure of Socialism) Eastman; of cancer; in Gay Head, Mass...
...peak $220. They dropped to $20 in the 1950 cold war, rose to $125 on the strength of last summer's Geneva spirit, are currently quoted at $53-75-Periodically, the Soviets talk about honoring the obligation. In 1933, to gain U.S. recognition, Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff even promised, among other things, to negotiate repayment. For good will Litvinoff assigned the U.S. Government the right to take over some Russian funds in the U.S., prorate the proceeds among bondholders and other creditors...