Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shigemitsu & Litvinoff. In Moscow, truce grew last week directly out of negotiations carried on for the past three weeks by roly-poly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu (who is a great pal of pegleg Correspondent Walter Duranty). The facts about disputed Changkufeng Hill as far as the diplomats could agree last week were: 1) although Moscow claimed the hill under a Russo-Chinese treaty of 1886, for many years it had been completely vacant; 2) Koreans and Manchukuoans had from time to time gone to it on festival pilgrimages unhindered by Red Army...
...reach a truce, the Soviet Commissar and the Japanese Ambassador each made concessions. Mr. Shigemitsu gave up his original contention that the commission chosen to arbitrate the boundary should in fairness consist of one Japanese and one Manchukuoan for each Russian. He agreed to two Russians and two Japanese Manchukuoans. Mr. Litvinoff gave up his insistence that the agreement must specifically state that the boundary should be defined according to "maps bearing the signatures of official representatives of Russia & China." That point was left open. He further gave up his demand that the Japanese retire from the disputed territory before...
...Deputies met to receive the first Soviet budget drawn up since the Commissariat of Finance was "purged"' last March. New Finance Commissar Arsenii Grigorevich Zverev made a budget speech declaring that it is the Soviet Union's "duty to protect . . . the interests and culture of the working masses everywhere." For this big job, he announced, Russia has adequate funds. The Deputies cheered for many minutes after Commissar Zverev climaxed: "We stand for Peace, but we are ready to give blow for blow! If need be, the whole people stands behind the army and the Communist Party...
...attempt to retake Changkufeng!" Meanwhile Moscow, with something at last to boast about, admitted heavy fighting, announced that the Russian frontier had been "cleansed" of Japanese, a claim which the Japanese promptly denied. In Tokyo, the Foreign Office described conversations between its Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Foreign Commissar Litvinov which left the diplomatic situation...
...from the Soviet Union's Communist rulers was the last of a series of cordial farewells terminating Mr. Davies' 18 months' ambassadorship in Moscow. Most unusual feature of the farewells was a two-hour talk (subjects unrevealed) with Dictator Stalin himself. Two days before their departure, Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff gave a farewell dinner to Mr. & Mrs. Davies and the Embassy staff. Tipping a glass of champagne in a toast to President Roosevelt. Commissar Litvinoff declared there was a "latent mutual sympathy'' between the U. S. and Soviet Russia, asked Ambassador Davies...