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Above the reception room mantel was a stone-hewn hammer & sickle and a portrait of Dictator Stalin. Drinking champagne, but not touching the bountiful caviar and vodka, Mr. Chamberlain stood below a portrait of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff all evening, talked with Comrade Maisky for a half hour, departed at n p.m., whereupon the orchestra began to swing...
Lord Stanhope was succeeded as Minister of Education by the Earl de la Warr, a National Laborite protégé of the late James Ramsay MacDonald. It was Lord de la Warr who kept in touch with Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff during the Crisis, reported to London that Moscow made no "precise promises...
Peter-Maxim Litvinoff...
Geneva newshawks spent the week pecking their hardest at Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff in efforts to get him to say that, even if France did NOT aid Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union would do so anyhow. In a very long speech Commissar Litvinoff went no further than to divulge that the Red Army Staff had recently been anxious to join the French & British Army Staffs in conversations about how joint action could be taken against Germany. Although repeatedly complaining that the Red Army had not been invited to sit in, the Soviet Commissar answered at no time during...
...eclipse of Commissar Litvinoff last week left the Geneva limelight to Premier Dr. Juan Negrin of Leftist Spain. In a noble speech, upholding with Spanish fervor the ideals of the League, Dr. Negrin cried: "Once foreign intervention in Spain has been eliminated, I can assure you a policy of national conciliation, conducted under the firm, energetic direction of an authoritative government, will make it possible for all Spaniards to forget these years of conflict and cruelty and will rapidly re-establish domestic peace. Then the harsh trials of the present times may be regarded in our country as a baptism...