Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Picture a big, genial bear that walks like a man and is a man. You have pictured Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Last week at the League sessions in Geneva he came, after long probation and tremendous effort, finally into his own. M. Litvinov, as the world press has only lately begun to admit, aspired from the first to be a Kellogg or a Briand: a Peace...
Back in Moscow, able Max became assistant to the great George Tchitcherin, a former noble and Tsarist diplomat!' who was Soviet Foreign Commissar from 1920 onward for ten years, gradually growing sicker, turning over more & more of his cares to Max, who became Foreign Commissar last year...
...France now holds the lion's share of Europe's gold, and as money talks, much may come of this plan. But on its face it looked only a trifle less vague than the "United States of Europe." Abruptly the League was startled by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. In an unheralded speech he proposed a Pact of Economic Non-Aggression between Russia and other States "for the peaceful co-existence of the Soviet and Capitalist systems." Russia, he said, would agree with Capitalist countries on a program of no dumping by anyone. "Let the States represented...
...theatrical platform when there is a lull between the periods of intense action. Minor plots, and threads of plots, all-essential to the main action, and yet not commonly associated with it, are now taking place. With naval problems being relegated to the rear of the stage, Foreign Commissar Litvinoff of Russia has advanced towards the footlights, and for the past week has been affording foreign correspondents not a little glamour to color their often monotonous dispatches...
...banquet given recently by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, Sir Esmond Ovey, British Ambassador, was startled by his fork...