Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then secret negotiations have been proceeding between Paris, London and Moscow. The fathers of the new scheme to keep Europe's peace are M. Barthou and Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, but they need a potent godfather to urge their plans upon Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Last week Sir John Simon assumed this role with Augustan magnanimity...
...clouds broke and M. Barthou, his beard bright with smiles, gave a dinner which turned out to be a love feast. Haggard old "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was shoved into obscurity, his plan dropped. Agreement was then reached on three points: 1) The Disarmament Conference will not act on Soviet Commissar Maxim Litvinoffs proposal that it turn itself into the Permanent Conference for Promotion of Peace but will submit this idea to all governments; 2) the main Disarmament Conference will adjourn this week until autumn but several committees will bask along in Geneva all summer; 3) the work of the Conference...
Roly-poly Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, next climbed the rostrum. In all previous Disarmament sessions, Comrade Litvinoff's tactics have been to demand 100% disarmament at once, to pledge Russia to anything the other powers would agree to, and then to sit back and chuckle hugely as red waves of embarrassment flushed his capitalist friends' cheeks. But things have changed in the past year. The growth of Hitlerism, formal recognition of U. S. S. R. by the U. S. and the possibility that Russia may soon take out a full League membership have left the capitalist world...
...mace of the Parliament of Ontario, seized by the U. S. Army in 1813 (see p. 19). ¶ Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky visited the White House to discuss Russian debt negotiations and presented the philatelic President with a volume containing a new issue of Soviet stamps, sent by Commissar Litvinoff. ¶By two strokes of his official pen the President: 1) vetoed a bill which would have guaranteed minimum incomes to substitute mail carriers in the Post Office; 2) abolished the office of Alien Property Custodian established during the War to take over some two billion dollars worth of firms...
...Chile. Tight censorship closed the Press after clashes between Santiago crowds and mounted carabineros had killed one, wounded 13. Russia. Moscow celebrated the national holiday for two days. The first was given over to the traditional military display in the Red Square, reviewed by Dictator Stalin and War Commissar Klimentiy Voroshilov. The second day was a thoroughgoing bourgeois fiesta. Buildings were strung with electric lights, loudspeakers blared dance music in the streets, truckloads of actors gave free shows in the squares. Austria. Shrewd Chancellor Dollfuss chose the Socialist holiday to proclaim Austria's long-brewing corporative Constitution. That Viennese...