Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important delegate whom the U. S. did not see was roly-poly Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. A veteran of most world conferences since 1921, he has an annoying habit of puncturing the complacency of European statesmen by attacking the empty phrases they use to veil their lack of accomplishment, knowing well that every sally at the expense of the bourgeois world brings him salvos of applause from Moscow. Not one peep came from M. Litvinov last week. Observers believed he would work hard and say little for many days to come. Theoretically a world economic conference should mean nothing...
...Russia will have one vote. Japan will have two, its own and that of a Manchukuo representative. It was, said the Japanese Foreign Office, their business to see to it that Manchukuo did not become embroiled with Russia, thereby involving her ally Japan. Said Russia's Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, "It is common knowledge that Japan and Manchukuo are the same thing." The Japanese Foreign Office chortled that Litvinov's remark was "just like the Russians...
Moderate Soviet opinion was expressed by Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov...
...Tiflis loot. Litvinov escaped to Britain after convincing French Republicans that the bank robbery was a political not a criminal act. In Britain he became a traveling salesman and married Ivy Low, niece of the late Sir A. Maurice Low. His revolutionary career was crowned with his appointment as Commissar for Foreign Affairs in 1930. Even before then he had invariably been the Soviets' delegate to Europe's endless post-War conferences...
...fact that Maxim Litvinov, a moderate at heart, has been able to hold his popularity and power in the Communist Party is just another paradox of the Stalin regime. Some 100% Bolshevists excuse him for the position he holds. As Foreign Commissar it is his duty to move among tainted bourgeois, wear bourgeois clothes. It is not unnatural that he should occasionally think bourgeois thoughts. With his wife and two children and one "house worker" he occupies a four-room apartment over a garage behind the former palace of a Moscow tycoon. Official dinners are held in state rooms...