Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British and French diplomacy had just suffered a shock from the retirement of anti-Fascist Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff as Russia's Foreign Commissar (see p. 22). The suspicion was well-founded that the Soviet Union had suddenly become disinterested in a Stop-Hitler alliance with the West. On the floor of the British House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had to answer angry charges from Opposition M. P.s that he had been "dilatory" in seeking a tie-up with the Soviet Union. Most pugnacious was peppery old David Lloyd George, Wartime Prime Minister, who wanted to know...
Last week Comrade Litvinoff's term abruptly ended, and with his displacement came Europe's sensation of the week. Moscow's radio laconically announced shortly before midnight one night that Comrade Litvinoff had been relieved of his job at "his own request." The Commissar, it was explained later, was ill, had been suffering from heart disease. His job would henceforth be taken by Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, President of the Council of People's Commissars, a member of the all-powerful Political Bureau of the Communist Party, right-hand man to Dictator Joseph Stalin for some...
WARSAW--Poland tonight hastened to assure Berlin and other capitals that the "complete normalization" of Polish-Soviet relations resulting from the visit of Russian Foreign Vice-Commissar Vladimir P. Potemkin bars any offensive alliance against Germany...
Short and stocky, the well-known history expert leaned back in his chair and after a pause began again; "As for the recent resignation of Litvinoff, Russian Foreign, Commissar, I certainly do not believe that it is preliminary to an alliance with Germany. A Hitler-Stalin alliance would be fantastic and it seems to me more likely that Stalin is just trying to scare Chamberlain into a more active agreement...
...fighting in their defense. They are more than willing, however, to accept Russian planes and munitions. Off early this week from London for Moscow was Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Ivan M. Maisky. He was carrying home to Dictator Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff the outlines of a plan of "limited aid" in case of war. Far from being insulted at being told that only one kind of support was wanted, Russia was expected to be elated. A successful defense of Poland and Rumania would mean that never would Joseph Stalin...