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Russia has her paws full fighting Germany. And since she is doing a good job of it, she had better not take on more than she can handle by trying also to fight Japan. Nobody knows it better than Maxim Litvinoff. This was the news that he last week conveyed by implication to the U.S. people...
...President talked to Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, arrived just before the attack. Then he relaxed on his office sofa, slept soundly for an hour. When he arose he checked reports again (still piled with bad news), announced that he would speak to the nation the next night, and began dictating his speech...
...China Clipper in San Francisco, Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff stepped on U.S. soil at week's end for the first time in eight years. After a 24-day, 20,000-mile airplane journey from Kuibyshev, Comrade Litvinoff and his snowy-haired English wife looked like any bourgeois tourists who had not had enough sleep...
...Litvinoff was glad to get back. The U.S. was the scene of his greatest diplomatic triumph: the U.S. recognition of Russia which he negotiated in Washington in 1933. But when Moscow was attempting to appease Adolf Hitler, Litvinoff's hatred for Naziism forced him into oblivion...
...back in good grace, he returned to the U.S. as Russia's Ambassador, entrusted with the vital job of arranging war collaboration. He arrived in a capital shocked by news of Japan's attack. Maxim Litvinoff's pleasure was tempered with gravity: Soviet Russia's greatest diplomat had stepped into the greatest responsibility he had ever known...