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...Excellency Maxim Litvinoff had already left for Moscow when Messrs Davis, Eden and Delbos brought in their windup-motion. Then up rose Chinese Delegate Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. "Now that the door to conciliation and mediation has been slammed in your face by the latest reply from the Japanese Government," Koo told the Conference, "will you not decide to withhold supplies of war materials and credits to Japan and extend aid to China? It is, in our opinion, the most modest way in which you can fulfill your obligations of helping to check Japanese aggression and uphold treaties...
...Candid camera shots at Brussels showed last week (see cut) that British Foreign Secretary Eden elevates his teacup so close to his face that it almost covers his nose, extends his fifth finger to the full; while Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff keeps his cup nearly level, protrudes his lips toward it, bending his head and sucking in the tea. Long-reach cookie snatching, by delegates leaning across in front of other delegates who already had their cookies and kept standing close to the table, was also in order at Brussels...
...struggle was going on in Moscow to dissuade Dictator Stalin from what was said to be his preference for withdrawing Russia entirely from the Non-intervention Committee and even refusing to participate in the Nine-Power Conference on China and Japan soon to meet at Brussels. Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff, whose office is not in the Kremlin and who is not especially close to the Dictator, was said to be urging strongly that Russia keep her place at London and appear at Brussels. The British and French embassies in Moscow made representations last week urging Russia to cooperate and Soviet...
...their dispatches favorably to influence U. S. opinion, but Mr. Lyons thinks that once recognition was achieved the State has found it convenient to jockey out of Russia nearly all the more experienced U. S. correspondents who know too much about the last 20 years. Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff, charges Mr. Lyons, secured his own dismissal in 1934, and he thinks that today the Kremlin prefers to have in Moscow diplomatic and other representatives who are sufficiently Capitalist not to worry about whether Stalin has betrayed the Revolution: "The Kremlin . . . outwardly pretending satisfaction over the appointment of William Christian...
...recall of Turkey's Foreign Minister suggested a likely explanation for the wrath of Turkey's Dictator and the fall of Turkey's Premier. At the Nyon Conference recently myopic Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras was cajoled by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff into agreeing that British and French ships assigned to patrol the seas around Turkey for "pirates" (TIME, Sept. 27) should be permitted to base their operations in Turkish ports. Next thing Dr. Aras knew Turkey had failed at Geneva, even with the aid of Comrade Litvinoff, to be re-elected to the League Council...