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...nine years Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff trotted about Europe as the Foreign Commissar of Soviet Russia. Although he had never been much of a power within the Soviet Union, he was one of the few old-line Bolsheviks who could talk to capitalist diplomats in their own language. He made an able traveling salesman for Joseph Stalin. At the endless, shilly-shallying, post-war conferences he was the vigorous symbol of an era when the Soviet was plugging the theory of collective security, backed every democratic move aimed at the Axis. But he was sold out all along the line...
Russia was still a mystery, at least to Britain. What was discussed when Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov visited Berlin was still secret, but all the world knew the classic cornerstone of Russian diplomacy: that no nation but Russia should control the Black Sea straits. Joseph Stalin's choice was now a grim one. If he acquiesced in the Axis Drang nach Osten, he ran the risk of being bottled in both the Baltic and Black Seas by Germany. If he did not, he ran the risk of being attacked by 2,000,000 real soldiers through what used...
Joseph Stalin last week gave two specific clues to his choice. Alexander Shkhvartzev, who was named Ambassador to Berlin at the time of the German-Russian Pact, was replaced by V. G. Dekanozov. Dekanozov was formerly Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and accompanied Mr. Molotov to Berlin. When United Press quoted Hamburger Fremdenblatt to the effect that Hungary's adhesion to the Axis was reached "with the cooperation and full authority of Russia," official Tass announced sharply: "This report does not correspond with the facts in any extent...
Russia's Premier and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov took a train for Berlin this week. It was the first time that schoolmasterish Comrade Molotov had ever left his own country, and only the most pressing business could have induced him to go to Berlin. The business was pressing. For weeks Adolf Hitler has wanted to know how Russia would react to a concerted Axis drive to the East. For weeks Joseph Stalin has stalled...
...dispatches of correspondents promoting a fight between Germany and Russia convincing. These made much of "massed troops" in Russia's Northern Bukovina, the partial evacuation of Cer-nauti on the Rumania-Russian border, rumored movements of Soviet tanks and motorized units, the visit to Bessarabia of Russian Commissar of Defense Semion Timoshenko. The principal business of Marshal Timoshenko was to visit his home town and chat with his rickety brother. One extremely indirect report told of the sinking of Rumanian Monitor No. 6 by the Russians; but another version called it a Yugoslav tanker sunk by a Rumanian mine...