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This lunch was by no means "diplomatic." It was instead an affair of the earthy type of Big Reds who are fist-deep in Russia's toughest problems and rather scorn the Soviet Foreign Commissar, "Maxie" Litvinoff, and his English wife Ivy. Later Ambassador Davies was feted at the Litvinoff dacha and had plenty of chance to see that these country places, plus the official limousines and luxuries of their owners, make the nominally small salaries of J. Stalin & Friends of no real importance, set them definitely off from Russia's masses as Mr. & Mrs. Davies...
...lady presented to the King curtsies. A gentleman presented to the King bows. Neither a lady nor a gentleman seizes the King's hand to shake it. Last week the greatest Court sensation since Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was impudent about King Edward VIII* was created by Adolf Hitler's personal and official envoy to the Court of St. James, Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador...
...will be safe in Mexico and that was TIME'S point. So far as World Revolution is concerned the position of Joseph Stalin is that his left hand constantly assists the Comintern led by Dimitroff to foment World Revolution, while his right assists the Soviet diplomacy of Litvinoff to maintain nominally friendly relations with Capitalist countries. Everyone knows that Stalin and Trotsky profess to be each other's worst enemies, but notably in Spain the disruptive activity of Trotskyists was a direct prelude to the arrival and success of Stalinists who have now taken charge in Madrid, Valencia...
...Heaven were furious at Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita for his handling of the new Treaty. It had been negotiated with great secrecy for some 18 months, and yet it leaked out of the Japanese Foreign Office just a few days before Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was to have signed a Russo-Japanese fishing treaty highly favorable to Japan (TIME, Nov. 30). Of course Comrade Litvinoff refused to sign this treaty when he heard about the anti-Communist pact, and last week members of the Japanese Privy Council, too angry to be discreet, blabbed that the Japanese Foreign Minister...
Neither Comrade Litvinoff nor anyone else outside of German, Japanese and possibly Italian officialdom knew precisely what it was the mere rumor of which had so upset Moscow. Because dispatches from Japan are always severely censored, the best indication seemed to be that Japanese official censors passed last week dispatches in which Tokyo correspondents claimed to have heard 1) that Emperor Hirohito had before him for signature a German-Japanese form of declaration approved Nov. 13 by a committee of the Japanese Privy Council and Nov. 16 by the full Council; 2) that this declaration will constitute "not a military...