Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down on every point except that when the League meets in regular session Sept. 4 it will simply have to discuss Italy and Ethiopia. Even such discussion the Dictator at first called "Unacceptable!" Then he grudgingly yielded. Around midnight the Big Three took time off to telephone Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, telling him as President of the Council to convene it next day. Somebody also telephoned Professor Jeze about 2 a. m. to come around and get the League formula. It provides that the totally deadlocked Italo-Ethiopian conciliation commission shall again discuss whether Italians or Ethiopians fired...
Roly-poly Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff used Geneva for years as a soap box from which, with Jewish wit, he mocked the Great Powers for the hypocrisy of their peace diplomacy, noted that League of Nations proceedings often resemble fencing in the dark with pussywillows...
...from the U. S., which were down to only some $15,000,000 in 1934, have doubled in volume so far this year. This fact he turned into a feat of diplomacy by instructing William Christian Bullitt, long-suffering U. S. Ambassador in Moscow, to agree with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff that Russia, in return for the indicated increase in her purchases from the U. S. during the next twelvemonth, shall enjoy for that period a 50% reduction in the U. S. tariff on manganese, one of Russia's chief exports...
Last week this great objective was achieved by smudge-mustached Foreign Trade Commissar Arkadi Pavlovich Rosengoltz...
...knew it was all right as soon as Russia's Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff took him in to meet Joseph Stalin, in whose face Laval saw much the same calm, woodchuck cunning he sees in his own mirror. The two got along famously, two born listeners who knew what they were doing. Stalin was so pleased with Laval that he prolonged the conversation through luncheon, the first time he had ever broken bread with a Capitalist Foreign Minister. It was also the longest visit he had ever had with a foreign official...