Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice last week British Ambassador Sir Esmond Ovey clapped his hat on his bald, aristocratic head and left his Moscow Embassy. First he went over to the office of Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov to demand the immediate release of four British engineers: W. H. Thornton, W. H. MacDonald, John Cushny, and one Gregory, still held in Soviet jails last week on charges of sabotage (TIME, March...
Four of the other British chelovyeks were not quite so chestny. Though treated almost as well, they remained in jail. Ambassador Ovey was allowed to see them once, in the presence of OGPU officials. Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov declared that they would be given a fair and public trial in April, with Russian lawyers assigned to their defense. Meanwhile, panic seized U. S. engineers in Russia who had no embassies at all to defend them. From Moscow a General Electric official telephoned Berlin that he was "unable to hold the men." Hardly had he rung off before...
...stealing press passes that belong to his confreres, badgering a forlorn cousin of the Romanovs who happens into his office. His amorous intrigues lose him his job; he gets it back by writing a lively account of an attempted assassination staged by having his secretary fire on a Soviet Commissar of police...
...like Nikolai Krylenko, famed for his pouncing cross examinations of witnesses and prisoners at numerous Soviet "propaganda trials" (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930, et ante), retired as State Prosecutor about a year ago, became Commissar (Minister) of Justice. Last week the Red State officially hailed Comrade Krylenko's "services in strengthening our courts and exposing sabotage and counter revolution," conferred on him the Order of Lenin...
...Last week China's reaction to the League of Nations' failure so far to help her against Japan was to make a motion toward her trump. Only the merest motion, for the Chinese gentlemen who compose the present government are astuteness itself. They let big, round-face Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov announce with unction at Geneva last week that Russia, the world's largest nation, and China, the world's most populous nation, have resumed the diplomatic relations which China broke...