Word: bearman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the few U. S. newspapers which make a point of printing important speeches in full, had not so printed Litvinov speeches. Last week the New York Times and Associated Press stamped Russia's bearman with the hallmark of respectable importance, printed entire the proposal he unfolded to outlaw economic...
Capitalism+Communism=Peace? It was not that everyone suddenly realized at Geneva last week that Litvinov is a Briand. The reason why Briand himself and other League statesmen suddenly began to frown upon the bearman was a trifle sordid. In recent months the Soviet Government has been swinging more and more buying orders from the U. S. to Europe. Pleased Europe wants more. French manufacturers were fervently with M. Briand when he lauded last week "the great moderation of M. Litvinov...
After hemming, hawing and being very, very nice to Comrade Litvinov for three days, the League statesmen weasled by adopting a resolution in the Commission on European Union ("the United States of Europe") which earmarked the Litvinov Pact for "further study." Up jumped the bearman, growling that Russia was ready to sign a pact of economic non-aggression now, and that now was the time to sign it. He moved for action. Up jumped Turkish Foreign Minister Twefik Rushdi Bey and seconded the motion. The bearman, turning upon Foreign Minister Julius Curtius of Germany, wanted to know...
That way (for an executive) madness lies. Tchitcherin did not go mad but is a weak, sick man today. The bearman learned from Tchitcherin, does not sharpen his own pencils. Tchitcherin would not use an automobile or permit his suits to be pressed, aristocrat that he was. Max, no aristocrat, can and does dress neatly without fear of Soviet gossip. He and Mme Litvinov give Moscow's best, biggest official parties. It is their duty. He must put on long black tails, she a filmy evening dress, and they must dine off gold plate at the Foreign Office...
...equally sorry. But unlike Your Excellency I am not bound by instructions from Paris," and the bearman shambled back to his desk...