Word: litvinoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Damning the United States "yellow process" for "bringing calamity that much nearer" in U. S. Russian relations, Arthur Upham Pope, biographer of Maxim Litvinoff, defended Russian foreign policy last night at the first Law School Forum of the 1946-47 season...
...evidenced by Molotov's denunciation of Churchill and Baruch as prophets of aggression. Perhaps it is this same justifiable fear which has, at least partially, motivated Molotov's plea for international disarmament. Regardless of the reasons for this first Russian proposal for disarmament since the one made by Maxim Litvinoff before the League of Nations in 1927, if it is made seriously and in good faith, it can do more than anything else to convince the world of Russia's peaceful intentions...
...been almost as much a historian as an artist-he is a portraitist rather than a creator. Will Rogers had called him the "last of the savage head-hunters." He had met and modeled almost all the significant figures of modern times. Foch, Balfour, Lloyd George, Benes, Litvinoff, John D. Rockefeller the elder, Andrew Mellon, Sinclair Lewis, Sidney Hillman, Clemenceau, Mussolini, Gandhi and Aldous Huxley were only a few of his trophies. He was convinced that Franklin Roosevelt was the greatest of them...
...public respect which could now be spent in U.S.S.R. baiting, in the company of other savory persons who spend their time at it? During the '30s, when the Chinese Communists were the only group who persistently called for resistance to the Japanese invasion of northern China, or when Litvinoff was the only representative of a major power to speak for Ethiopia against Italy, or when the U.S.S.R. alone made an effort to defeat Franco in Spain? Or during the '40s, while the battles of Sevastopol and Stalingrad were being fought, while the U.S.S.R. was managing to save more...
...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...