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Years have passed since any member of the Soviet Council of People's Commissars has received any foreign journalist, and thus last week the Moscow corps of correspondents was highly excited by an invitation to confer with Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff in his Louis XV office which looks out across the street at the Secret Political Police building...
Recently the Soviet Government has forced foreign consulates to close down in manyparts of the Soviet Union. Finally it demanded that the British consul and his staff at Leningrad clear out. Last week the British Foreign Office quietly informed Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff that hereafter the only place in Russia where anyone can get a British visa will be His Britannic Majesty's Consulate in Leningrad...
...Litvinoff was my chief. He was in time past a courageous revolutionary who had Lenin's confidence. He has shown his intelligence on a score of different occasions in world conferences. What tragic fate has overtaken him to see his best collaborators, his closest friends, disappear -to see the whole framework of his service broken and to be obliged now to approve what has been done, even to praising the executioners of his associates...
...first step toward their education in democracy when Stalin's constitution labeled these things unconstitutional. So likewise it was education last week to 100,000,000 Russians to find that they were entitlednks, sending money abroad to Lenin & Trotsky, crisp banknotes which the go-between Litvinoff carried in his little satchel. In 1918, during the civil war with the White Russians, pugnacious Disciple Stalin, describing the difficulties of keeping his Communist troops together, wrote to the Master Lenin: "I drive and scold everyone who needs...
After an evening of research at the dinner table, it has been decided the facial postures of Drenchers Litvinoff and Eden (TIME, Nov. 22, p. 21) are not due to any political, social, or cultural affiliations of either, but rather to the stage of tea drinking reached by each. It would seem that "Red Litvinoff" is on his first cautious sip from a full cup of tea while "Tory Eden" is draining the dregs. Let TIME'S Editor try and finish a cup of tea without putting his nose into...