Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great subject of Russia, at least, Raymond Moley knew exactly what his President wanted him to do. In London he marched to Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinov, got a $4,000,000 U. S.-Soviet cotton deal (see p. 19). Recognition loomed...
Moscow seethed. Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Gregory Sokolnikov protested to the world: "Without waiting for our investigation the Tachikaze illegally penetrated Soviet waters and landed part of a crew which arbitrarily explored the shore. . . . The Soviet Government cannot fail to express utter surprise...
...Amberjack II came reports that her Skipper-President had told Professor Moley to take up U. S.-Russian recognition at the World Conference with moon-faced twinkly-eyed Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov. In London last week correspondents noticed that Comrade Litvinov, once accustomed to being snubbed by Statesman Stimson at Geneva, now hobnobs in friendly fashion with Snubber Stimson's successor, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. In the lobbying skirmish fortnight ago to get Vice Chief U. S. Delegate Cox elected Chairman of the Conference Monetary Committee (TIME, June 26), Comrade Litvinov battled from the first...
...Premier Richard Bedford Bennett came to the Conference proposing such a plan he joined forces eagerly with Mr. Morgenthau. Because a wheat pact may lead to diplomatic recognition and because Russia is having a hard time just now to grow a wheat surplus anyway. Uncle Henry found Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov willing to cooperate in restricting exports. But down in the Argentine there was the Devil to pay. A stubborn Argentine Senate, egged by small wheat growers, railed against restriction...
Litvinov. For the Soviet Union, round, cherubic Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov offered a billion dollars' worth of Russian orders for the World's industrial products-but with the fatal string attached that Russia can buy only on credit, something the World is unwilling to give...