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...propaganda. But Soviet Russia-one-sixth of the world-is no pariah. Her government has now been recognized by Afghanistan, Austria, China, Danzig, Denmark. Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain (none of the British dominions has extended recognition), Greece, Iceland, Irak, Italy, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway. Persia, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the U. S. and Uruguay...
...year-old Sir Basil Zaharoff, European munitions tycoon (TIME, Oct. 16), filed claims in London and Paris to compel Sir Basil, now lying ill in his Paris home, to recognize him. He asserted that Sir Basil was Russian-born, submitted an affidavit from the town council of Vilkomir, Lithuania (formerly part of Russia), and marriage and birth certificates establishing that one Manel Sahar married a Russian girl named Haia Elka Karollinski, had a son named Haim Manelevich Sahar. The marriage was dissolved in 1877 and both parents remarried.* Hyman Barnett Zaharoff asserted that Zaharoff was the Little Russian form...
Last week Director MacMurray was preparing to set out as U. S. Minister to Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania, with perhaps Soviet Russia as a later objective (TIME, Oct. 30). During his absence the Page School will be directed by Dr. Frederick Sherwood Dunn, associate in the School, onetime assistant solicitor in the State Department, member of mixed claims commissions, fellow in international law at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Dunn has completed a study on "Protection of Nationals." is working on "Intervention in International Affairs." Other Page School projects: a round table on China; studies on oil in Russia by Dr. Lazare Teper...
...quieting effect upon U. S.-domestic excitements was instant and undisputed. For William Bullitt, now special assistant to the Secretary of State, it was also a triumph: weeks of quiet negotiation by him and by John Van Antwerp MacMurray, who is apparently slated to turn in his Latvia-Estonia-Lithuania portfolio and become Ambassador to Moscow, led up to last weeks exchange of letters...
...delegates, frail, pallid Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Robert W. Bingham and smart, sharp-nosed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, newly appointed Minister to Latvia, Estonia & Lithuania, promptly tried to save the Wheat Pact by proposing to offer Russia a quota 8,000,000 bu. greater than her hypothetical allotment...