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...Foreign Minister. At other times he has been the Finnish Minister to Latvia and Estonia and special delegate to the League of Nations. It was he who, as Foreign Minister, signed the "good-neighbor" agreement with the Soviet Union in February 1937. He and the then Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff became good friends...
...mysterious messages from Hitler to Stalin and back, his object being to better the condition of his fellow Czechs under Hitler and to "revenge Munich." Hitler had told the Ambassador that Germany had no designs on the Ukraine, that Stalin should therefore consider a confidential exchange of views; Maxim Litvinoff stayed home from a League of Nations Council meeting to fight against the idea; a large German trade delegation was going to Moscow...
...March, Stalin made a big speech before the Communist Party Congress, lashing out against the democracies. Stalin's Ambassador reportedly let Berlin know of Litvinoff's fall five days before it came, and, day after it came, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt significantly said: "European politics now have emerged once for all from the unfruitful era of unbounded ideological conflict. . . . Realists now have taken over the leadership from idealists like Litvinoff and Eden...
...break in the progress of the negotiations came when Russia's Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff was abruptly retired from his post. But by May 22 authoritative sources declared that the peace front was rapidly becoming a fact, and in five days Great Britain was announced as bowing to Soviet terms, burying her old prejudices, expressing confidence that Russia would agree. Six weeks later negotiations were still going...
...Hitler alliance between Britain, France and Soviet Russia. Soon afterwards in Moscow, able, lively British Ambassador Sir William Seeds went to the Kremlin to present his Government's views to Premier Viacheslav Molotov, also Foreign Commissar since the retirement last month of the veteran Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...