Word: litvinoff
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...grateful reader pause in the day's occupation to suggest a salvo of praise for the anonymous editor and the selfless team of researchers and collaborators who are responsible for the over-all story on the U.S.S.R. and Maxim Litvinoff in the issue...
...military logic does not always prevail, and Litvinoff has needed all his diplomatic skill, his shrewdness, his hard common sense. A great belly laugher with ideal physical equipment -he stands 5 ft. 3 and weighs 200 lb. -he gets along fabulously well with laugh-loving Franklin Roosevelt. He works well with Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry Wallace, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Lend-Leaser Major General James H. Burns...
...Problems. Many problems fogged the air around Litvinoff's desk. Russian generals, going over Lend-Lease specifications, wondered why a big rich country could not send more aid, Why it had to wait for production lines to start moving. Members of the Russian mission, remembering how long and how thoroughly their own country had been stripped down for war, blinked at U.S. shop windows still full of metal automobile gadgets...
Under the circumstances there is no quid pro quo for the U.S. to open its heart or its plans to Russia. Litvinoff does not ask that. But there is another basis for U.S.-Russian relations: this war is going to be won by nations that are tougher than Germany and Japan. If the U.S. is willing to be a tough guy it can play ball with tough Russia. Against a common enemy they can operate together with profit and yet each for himself...
That is what Litvinoff sensibly offers, a game as fair for one player as for another...