Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photographic evidence from Moscow and Rome to settle the most significant controversy in which Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff has become involved in recent years arrived in the U. S. last week. The case has concerned M. Fedor Butenko, one of the New Bolsheviks who are being spectacularly advanced in the Soviet Union by Dictator Stalin to replace the liquidated Old Bolsheviks. Since Stalin's purge has been mowing down Soviet diplomats right & left, the Moscow diplomatic school has to work fast and overtime to keep filling up the constantly depleted ranks. Through this forcing house...
Apparently Commissar Litvinoff, himself an Old Bolshevik, which today in Russia is risky and apt to leave one out of things, judged that New Bolshevik Butenko was a typical favorite of the Stalin entourage. Meanwhile, the Soviet Secret Political Police, who operate strictly on their own, were closing in upon Butenko at the very time when all Rumania was in ferment because of the Goga Cabinet collapse (TIME, Feb. 21). When the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires suddenly "disappeared" one night in Bucharest, the local Soviet Tass news agency man concluded that Rumanian Fascists had kidnapped or murdered...
...soundproof police cellars had just been executed last week the 18 Old Bolsheviks condemned at Moscow's latest blood-purge trial (TIME, March 21. et ante) and one of the dead was Nikolai Krestinsky, up to a few months ago First Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs. In the past twelve months Commissar Litvinoff has also suffered the execution or disappearance of nearly all the great figures of Soviet diplomacy, including the Soviet Union's chief expert on Near & Far East affairs, Leo Karakhan, and several Soviet diplomats have fled abroad to denounce Communism & Stalin. Moscow papers had just...
...Foreign Commissar, in welcoming his journalist guests, announced that the U. S. S. R. is about to invite the U. S., the United Kingdom. France and other democratic countries to a general Collective Security Conference to which the U. S. S. R. will not invite Germany, Italy or Japan...
...under the treaties of mutual assistance concluded with France and Czechoslovakia . . . is ready . . . to participate in collective actions that would be decided upon jointly with it and that would aim at checking the further development of aggression and at eliminating an aggravated danger of a new world massacre." I.e., Commissar Litvinoff was not offering direct, immediate Soviet aid in case of need to Czechoslovakia, such as Moscow sent to Madrid...