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...Montreux, only a few miles up the Lake of Geneva from the sparkling new League of Nations buildings, the Conference opened last week with extreme Swiss police precautions against assassination of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, onetime traveling salesman, and Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras. onetime male midwife. From London came the 7th Earl Stanhope, product of Eton, Oxford and the Grenadier Guards. He was sent to capitulate to Turkey at Montreux because British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, has the job of capitulating to Italy down the lake in Geneva this week...
...virtually to control passage of the straits, whether by sea or air. Russia, having France on her side, hammered demands that Black Sea countries (like Russia) should have unrestricted entrance and egress, while nonBlack Sea countries should have their war boats virtually excluded. A dextrous word wangler, Comrade Litvinoff favored the Conference with his explanation of why the Red Navy, although "wholly not aggressive," must be able to rush out of its Black Sea at any moment. The reason is, according to the Soviet Foreign Minister, that units of the Bolshevik fleet have to make "courtesy visits" constantly to other...
...this Britain & Japan opposed shoulder-to-shoulder demands that "equal rights of passage in either direction should exist for all nations." Stanhope and Litvinoff were soon quarreling and Japan's dry Mr. Sato said: "Even if the British recede from the Anglo-Japanese position, Japan will not recede...
...them were the plenipotentiaries of the Locarno Powers, excepting Germany (i. e., Britain, France, Belgium and Italy), and some were the League Sanctions Committee. Yet the same statesmen turned up again & again. An exception was that since Soviet Russia is not a Locarno Pact signatory, Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was not directly in on the Locarno palavers...
Meanwhile last week the Franco-Soviet Mutual Assistance Treaty, ratified by the French Chamber three weeks ago, was ratified by the French Senate. Although Soviet Minister Litvinoff is usually the most talkative statesman at diplomatic gatherings, in London last week he was glowering, tousle-haired Silence...