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...sentence was written by a Russian whom the British like and can understand, Maxim Litvinoff. As Foreign Commissar before the war, he was a protagonist of collective security-simultaneous moves to keep the peace. Now, as unofficial liaison man, he pleaded for simultaneous moves...
...idea was not exclusive with Com rade Litvinoff. Many Britons hotly championed it. Last week a Gallup poll showed that 50% more British people were thinking about an invasion of the continent than any other single problem. In a week when the Russians were having serious troubles, more people than ever felt that Britain should do all it could to help itself by helping Russia...
...another diplomat in waiting, a Russian, the Pact was equally good news. He was onetime Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, once No. 1 sales man of Russia's United Front. For a decade he held forth at Geneva, talking for collective security and against Fascism, was waved to the sidelines in 1939 when Russia changed her tactics, began her appeasement play for time...
Last week, in an English-language broadcast from Moscow, Litvinoff too ended his silent wait. Once again he was saying that it was the job of Russia, Britain (and this time he added the U.S.) to stop Hitler, to destroy "the greatest obstacle to the development of civilization that has ever existed...
...businessman's point of view; he talks to Lanny about sex and a career, and to Basil Zaharoff about armaments, oil, and what wires to pull. They go to a great-many conferences-San Remo, Spa, Cannes, Genoa-where Sinclair introduces vignettes of Steffens, Mussolini, Litvinoff, and a sweet-tempered scorching of Harding's Roman Ambassador, Richard Washburn Child...