Word: litvinoff
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...Litvinoff Era. Having embarked upon the collective security method of pursuing her objective of peace, Russia gave it all she had. Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff became one of the most active, consistent delegates to the League, repeatedly astounded his colleagues with the proposal that everybody disarm. But almost from the moment that she entered the League, Russia saw the principle of collective security sold out time after time...
...after Germany took the rest of Czecho-Slovakia, Russia proposed a six-power conference to devise resistance to further aggression. Great Britain said the proposal was "premature." A month later Russia proposed an ironclad, three-power alliance with Britain and France. Nothing happened for three weeks, then Litvinoff resigned...
...Maxim Litvinoff replaced by Viacheslav Molotov as Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs...
...Soviet diplomat, with a brilliant record in Afghanistan, Turkey, Germany and League of Nations wrangles. He was for years the only Jew in Germany permitted to keep Aryan housemaids -by personal dispensation of the Führer. Ambassador Suritz was not "purged" when his intimate friend Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff fell from Joseph Stalin's favor, but few Bolsheviks close to a fallen bigwig survive for long. Last week the Moscow radio significantly broke a story that began the middle of last month when Edouard Daladier, then French Premier, sent his Moscow Chargé d'Affa...
...Joseph Stalin, and congratulating the Dictator upon having foiled "plans of the Anglo-French warmongers" and "sinister schemes of enemies of Socialism" by worsting Finland. Whoever sent that undiplomatic telegram into the teeth of French censorship knew the French Cabinet must inevitably demand the recall to Moscow of fallen Litvinoff's friend Suritz...