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...Litvinoff remembered, is Russia's most beautiful month. In the south, the cherries and peaches ripen; the rich black loam of the Ukraine bakes from mud to dust; on the Central Front, around Moscow, the spongy forest land is thick with violets and lilies-of-the-valley, and the cuckoo and nightingale sing...
This year the Russian spring is a threat, not a promise. The sun drying out the mud ever farther north unrolled a great firm highway for the Nazi war machine. Maxim Litvinoff could guess at the pattern of the Nazi drive: this time, probably, Hitler would smash south, toward the oil of the Caucasus, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean. At the same moment the Japanese, with perhaps 1,000,000 men in Manchukuo, their railroads fanned out to the Siberian border, might smash at Russia's Asian end. This was Russia's crucial hour...
...Litvinoff, six months out of Russia, knew his nation was still confident, as it had been even when the Nazis battered at Moscow's gates and the whole world thought Russia crushed He could ponder Joseph Stalin's new order of the day to the Russian Army (see p. 26), loaded with assurance that Russia had grown stronger, Germany weaker...
...first radio address to the U.S. last February, Litvinoff appealed for a second front indirectly, half-humorously: Russia, long the world's stepchild, does not like to beg anything. Said Litvinoff: "We are proud that it has fallen to our lot to smash Hitler's war machine, but we by no means insist on exclusive rights...
...Circumstance. This shift in Washington opinion was not wrought by Maxim Litvinoff alone. Military logic backed...