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When the Soviet Union's Foreign Commissar, roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was reminded by correspondents last spring that Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union have no common frontier and was asked how his country could possibly go to Czechoslovakia's aid in case of war, the Commissar exclaimed: "Where there's a will there...
Shigemitsu & Litvinoff. In Moscow, truce grew last week directly out of negotiations carried on for the past three weeks by roly-poly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu (who is a great pal of pegleg Correspondent Walter Duranty). The facts about disputed Changkufeng Hill as far as the diplomats could agree last week were: 1) although Moscow claimed the hill under a Russo-Chinese treaty of 1886, for many years it had been completely vacant; 2) Koreans and Manchukuoans had from time to time gone to it on festival pilgrimages unhindered by Red Army...
...truce, the Soviet Commissar and the Japanese Ambassador each made concessions. Mr. Shigemitsu gave up his original contention that the commission chosen to arbitrate the boundary should in fairness consist of one Japanese and one Manchukuoan for each Russian. He agreed to two Russians and two Japanese Manchukuoans. Mr. Litvinoff gave up his insistence that the agreement must specifically state that the boundary should be defined according to "maps bearing the signatures of official representatives of Russia & China." That point was left open. He further gave up his demand that the Japanese retire from the disputed territory before negotiations start...
...Again shows him in predicaments inglorious enough to bring about the fall of any government. His eyebrows upped with vague uneasiness, he hands a match to Mussolini, who is lighting a bomb under his chair. Perched beside Colonel Blimp on a raging volcano, he spurns Litvinoff's assistance in putting out the fire: "Sorry," he says, as the flames roast his rear, "but we don't want to burn our fingers." Cartoonist Low is almost as good in his caricatures of General Franco, but his drawings of Franco are in his old mood, give the General something...
...Communist rulers was the last of a series of cordial farewells terminating Mr. Davies' 18 months' ambassadorship in Moscow. Most unusual feature of the farewells was a two-hour talk (subjects unrevealed) with Dictator Stalin himself. Two days before their departure, Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff gave a farewell dinner to Mr. & Mrs. Davies and the Embassy staff. Tipping a glass of champagne in a toast to President Roosevelt. Commissar Litvinoff declared there was a "latent mutual sympathy'' between the U. S. and Soviet Russia, asked Ambassador Davies to pass on to America the "unbiased...