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...Life. While the new Nazi-Communist partnership may have surprised those whose Russian reading had been confined to the idealistic utterances of such Soviet diplomats as onetime Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff, Stalin's life reveals numerous examples of cynical opportunism and unprincipled grabbing of power. Sent to a Greek Orthodox seminary at Tiflis at 13, young "Soso" Djugashvili was expelled at 18 from the school because, said his priestly teachers, of "Socialistic heresy...
...organizer in Batum and Baku factories. He had something to do with the series of spectacular robberies that the "revolutionists" engineered. Once a Government-convoyed truck was bombed in the Tiflis main square, and 341,000 rubles ($170,000) in cash was taken from it. Maxim Litvinoff, incidentally, was later caught in Paris with some of this money on his person. "Soso" wandered from town to town in the Caucasus, using numerous aliases. Five times he was arrested and exiled; four times he escaped...
...September 1934 the U. S. S. R., long considered an outcast by other powers, was voted into membership of the League of Nations, and its delegate and Foreign Commissar, Maxim Litvinoff, was duly seated. At that time, and later, the Geneva platform was used as an international sounding board for Comrade Litvinoff's clean-cut, often stirring theses-against aggression, for the rights of small nations, on the immorality...
Foreign Commissar Litvinoff's most eloquent, emphatic statement on international morals was made in his maiden speech: We are faced now with the task of preventing war. ... At the same time we must grasp the undoubted truth that . . . not a single more or less important war can be localized. . . . We must also tell ourselves that any war sooner or later will bring distress to all countries, both to the combatants and the nonparticipants...
...Comrade Litvinoff's sole known duty today is to attend Supreme Soviet sessions, where he usually hears his heavy-tongued successor, Viacheslav Molotov. take a different tack. Meanwhile, Joseph Stalin's "Government of toilers," certainly "without declaring war" and surely "without a shadow of cause of justification," has, indeed, made war against Finland. And as last week the League met to do something about it, another Soviet delegate, Jacob Z. Suritz, also Ambassador to France, delivered no such ringing anti-aggression exhortations as used to be expected from Maxim Litvinoff...