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...studying meaning, while Dr. Ogden led the Orthological Institute in further refinements of the Basic English method. Ingenious charts for associating pictures and simple words were drawn up with the help of enthusiastic American and foreign students, and the group became widely known in a very short time. Maxim Litvinoff and his wife were so impressed by the Basic approach to English that they learned it and introduced it into the schools in Russia. And Massachusetts successfully employs Basic English in teaching our language to that section of its population which is foreign born. The Committee's high point thus...
...conversations progressed, President Roosevelt talked to Russia's Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff. to China's Dr. Hu Shih and Dr. T. V. Soong, Dutch Minister Alexander Loudon, representatives of the Latin American republics and occupied European nations. Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King arrived from Canada...
...Litvinoff was the Foreign Commissar who fell from power when Stalin, changing policy, was preparing to sign the German-Russian Pact. (He was the spokesman for cooperation with the democracies who came back when Stalin needed democratic cooperation; the logical choice for Ambassador to Washington.) Ambassador Litvinoff's first appearance in Washington should have been the first great move toward reconciling a suspicious Russia with a suspicious...
...Ambassador Litvinoff had to say something. The Ambassador made his country's position clear. Diplomatically, it was a masterly job. Practically, it said that Russia would take no action against Japan-now. Litvinoff's chief points...
Ambassador Litvinoff put the situation very neatly. And in making it plain that Russia would not open up an Eastern Front, he also gave a good reason: "Hitler is the chief culprit in all the present wars, the inspirer of the whole gang, and the destruction of Hitler would mean the end of them all." The U.S. and Britain, now fighting the whole gang, understood and agreed...