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With a great pouf of relief Foreign Minister Laval leaped from the table. Eager to help, Maxim Litvinoff, President of the League Council, summoned his colleagues at 12:47 a.m. At 1:37 a.m. the Council passed two interlocking resolutions. They provide that four arbitrators (Abyssinia's two and two appointed by Italy) must reach a decision by July 25, failing which a fifth arbitrator will be chosen by the League Council. All five will be given until Aug. 25 to reach agreement, after which the League Council will take things over, scratch its head, ponder...
...knew it was all right as soon as Russia's Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff took him in to meet Joseph Stalin, in whose face Laval saw much the same calm, woodchuck cunning he sees in his own mirror. The two got along famously, two born listeners who knew what they were doing. Stalin was so pleased with Laval that he prolonged the conversation through luncheon, the first time he had ever broken bread with a Capitalist Foreign Minister. It was also the longest visit he had ever had with a foreign official...
...Open to all," refrained Laval, Stalin and Litvinoff over & over, "open to all," for the benefit of Adolf Hitler who had said last month that he would gladly put Germany into precisely that sort of arrangement. Other presumptive invitees: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. The new instrument dropped the mutual assistance clause of the abandoned Eastern Locarno Pact. It was in effect a "do-nothing" trap for aggressors, within the framework of the League of Nations. It left the way open for member nations to pair off in treaties of mutual assistance. It ignored such complications as the facts that...
...assassin shots that crumpled up indomitable old French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille (TIME. Oct. 15) delayed until last week what Germany has most dreaded-consummation of the Barthou-Litvinoff project for a military pact linking the Soviet Union and the French Republic...
...orchestras blared near a frisky goat, four droop-eyed sheep, a cageful of songbirds and roosters. Two bear cubs, borrowed by Ambassador Bullitt from the Moscow Public Zoo, spent most of the evening in each other's arms. Revelers in white ties included Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Education Commissar Bubnov, Foreign Trade Commissar Rosengolt. Only the most old-fashioned Belshevik guests such as Publicists Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, came dressed in proletarian sack suits. Tossing off the Ambassador's champagne, they sported all night with the excuse of waiting for his cocks to crow...