Word: litvinoffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last August Andrei A. Gromyko, 35, acting head of the Soviet Embassy, was named Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., succeeding Maxim Litvinoff (TIME, Aug. 30). Last week Andrei Gromyko, a modest, bookish comrade, finally got around to the formality of presenting his credentials to Franklin Roosevelt. For this occasion, Ambassador Gromyko, an able diplomatic chef, dished up some minute cuts of political meat, skillfully smothered in diplomatic parsley...
...week's end, timed like an explosion, came a Moscow announcement that Maxim Litvinoff, great & good friend of collaboration, had been removed as Russian Ambassador to the U.S. and an unknown diplomat, Charge d'Affaires Andrei A. Gromyko, given his place. There was other strong evidence that Russia was retreating-or bluffing a retreat-into nationalistic lone-wolfing, perhaps even a separate peace...
...Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has relieved Assistant People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs Comrade Litvinoff of his post as Ambassador and Envoy Plenipotentiary of the U.S.S.R. in the United States. Comrade Andrei Gromyko has been appointed Ambassador and Envoy Plenipotentiary of the U.S.S.R. in the United States." Ever since the Soviet revolution Maxim Litvinoff has been the stoutest Russian advocate of close friendship and collaboration with Britain and the U.S. And the significance of Litvinoff's removal was not isolated: only last month Ivan Maisky, warm admirer of the British...
Parallel? Joseph Stalin certainly knew that Churchill and Roosevelt would consider the parallel with 1939: May 3 - Maxim Litvinoff was replaced as Foreign Commissar...
Possibilities. Whatever move Soviet Russia makes, it makes no move haphazardly. There was concerted purpose in the sharp demands for a second front in Europe, in the official displeasure at being excluded from the Quebec conference, in the recall of Maisky and Litvinoff and the parallel with 1939. Joseph Stalin was saying that Russia does not necessarily have to accept the British-U.S. blueprint for war and peace; that if Russia disapproves the plans of its Western allies, if Britain and the U.S. ignore Russian demands and desires, Russia does indeed have a choice...