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...Five-Power Pact by adding Poland. In this scheme for organizing a unity of states in Europe proper without the Soviet Union, the Dictators were reputed in London to have last week the goodwill of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, could count on brilliant Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff to make plenty more of the trouble for them he started hatching at Nyon...
...dealing with governmental piracy!" cried Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff soon after the curtain rose. "Everyone knows its aims and the name of the State that is responsible is on everyone's lips [Italy], but it cannot be mentioned in this hall...
...patrolled lanes, only those submarines attacking contrary to the 1930 London Treaty rules-i. e., those which do not rise to the surface, display their true flag and give a freighter's crew time to take to the boats-would be counted outlaw. "Russia," snorted Comrade Litvinoff just before Russia signed, "expected something strong and vigorous...
...hair as "rapidly greying," but the Dictator appeared unruffled as he took his place for a meeting of the Central Executive Committee. With him on the dais sat President Kalinin, Premier Molotov and Defense Commissar Voroshilov. while in a box just below the dais sat Foreign Commissar Litvinoff. Business of this august Bolshevik gathering in the onetime throne room of the Tsars was to take preliminary steps toward setting a date and perfecting details for the first Russian election under the new "Stalinist Constitution" (TIME, June...
Soviet Russia had on its hands fortnight ago a frontier clash among the Amur River islands which ended when Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff secured hasty withdrawal of the Russian forces, claimed the Japanese had withdrawn too as promised by their Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu in Moscow (TIME, July 12). Last week Mr. Shigemitsu delicately hinted that there had been no Japanese promise to withdraw, and wrathful Comrade Litvinoff, on discovering that the Japanese either had not withdrawn or anyhow were on the disputed islands again within 48 hours, was in no mood to continue meek and conciliatory when news arrived...