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...elegant greystone Embassy on Washington's 16th Street, Russian Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff (pronounced Lit-VEEN-off) heard the seconds tick. Watching the dogwood bloom on the lawn, he could picture the Russian spring: no Russian, however far from his homeland, can forget the feathery pastels of white birch and oak, the woods alive with the calls of the zhavornok and the drozd, the heady smell of mushrooms and flowers sprouting in soil musty-damp from the winter's snow...
Background for some of his talk was provided by the eleven years in Europe described by his children. He had some valuable experiences in the now newsworthy Soviet: Stalin posed for him (first time he ever posed for anybody, Abbe claims); the police jugged him; gay Mme. Litvinoff told him "You look like a dead pope." He thinks it was an excellent description. The Abbe kids, having bought a 320-acre Colorado ranch on their successful narrative of Life with Father, now live there with their mother...
What Would Be Fatal? The basic fact was still the same, terrible fact: that the Allies had too many fronts already. Soviet spokesmen (including Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff in Washington) no longer cried specifically for a second front in Europe; they insisted that the one supremely vital front was in Russia, that the one Allied task, above all, was to supply that front. MacArthur in Australia, the vital Mid-East, Chiang Kai-shek in China, General Wavell in India, Britain herself, U.S. forces stationed from Hawaii to Iceland-all these called as well for supply. Last week a London naval analyst...
...proud that it has fallen to our lot to smash Hitler's war machine, but we by no means insist on exclusive rights. . . ." U.S. Answer. Maxim Litvinoff's nation, alone among the Allies, had taken the full shock of the Nazi machine. He feared that his nation would be alone again when spring brought a new German attack...
...same night that Maxim Litvinoff spoke, Wendell Willkie, whom Americans like because he talks like so many of them, addressed Hollywood's Academy Awards dinner...