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Forty-four million cases of canned tomatoes; 42 million cases of canned peas; 14 million cases of canned snap beans; 25 million cases of canned corn. Probabilities were that figures would be revised upwards when new Russian Ambassador Litvinoff arrives in Washington with a full report of Russian requirements...
...years he has spent as Ambassador to Russia was his 14-day trip back to Washington. In a howling blizzard he had flown from Kuibyshev, Russia's auxiliary capital, to Teheran in Iran. At one time his party, which included newly appointed Ambassador to the U.S. Maxim Litvinoff, was reported lost. In Teheran, Litvinoff was left behind, while Steinhardt flew on to Cairo because he had broken a tooth, and there was no good dentist short of Egypt...
Muddling Britons last week managed a neat insult to their ally Soviet Russia. On his way to Washington, Russia's newly appointed Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff flew into Teheran, tried to fly on to Cairo in a British Overseas Airways plane. But chubby Ambassador Litvinoff was stopped at the steps to the plane with the information: "All seats already have been taken...
Ambassador Litvinoff's genial old billikin face turned purple. His snowy-haired English wife, Ivy Litvinoff, confusedly asked: "Are we going, papa?" As the plane loaded with Britons took off without the Litvinoffs, it was apparent that a first-class diplomatic incident had occurred...
Later Ambassador Litvinoff cooled somewhat and flew off in the Russian war plane that had brought him from Samara. The British Government was all apology. London reports said that prior to the incident Ambassador Litvinoff had refused passage in a special R.A.F. plane, declaring that the seats were not suitable, and that the Russian Embassy at Teheran had been informed that the transport plane was full. One London rumor, conflicting with the Teheran dispatches, claimed that the plane was already in the air when the Ambassador arrived at the airport...