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...from Paris, hastily and much perturbed. They had not been to Geneva, and frantic longdistance telephone calls to 14 European Foreign Ministers informed those statesmen that there was not going to be any going to Geneva last week. A call to this effect caught Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff as he was about to entrain in Berlin, switched his destination from Geneva to London. Emphatically in Paris "something had happened...
...Howard confronted the Dictator with the fact that Soviet Russia has violated and continues to violate the solemn promises of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 27-1933) Soviet wits have accurately said that the Daughters of the American Revolution probably could not be permitted to meet in Moscow if the Litvinoff engagements were fulfilled to the letter by the Soviet Government. Mr. Howard's point was that they are not fulfilled. Comrade Stalin's rebuttal was by implication that it would be absurd for the Soviet Union to do what...
Nobody knows better than Comrade Litvinoff that the Litvinoff-to-Roosevelt pledges were nothing but a trap to catch recognition and that, recognition having been caught, they became scraps of paper. When the U. S. Congress ascertained the facts, it refused to appropriate the necessary $1,100,000 for U. S. Embassy & Consular buildings in the Soviet Union. Today Ambassador Bullitt, highly persona grata in Moscow, constitutes almost the sole friendly link between Moscow and Washington. Last week Comrade Litvinoff, obviously more worried than he cared to admit by the attention Mr. Howard had called to the Soviet...
...enemy of France is always going to be Germany. Launching swift efforts to strengthen old French alliances against the Reich and forge new ones, venerable but vivacious Louis Barthou had a glorious time dashing from capital to capital. In Geneva he sat down with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff and negotiated the terms of an Eastern Pact of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia to which Germany and Poland were invited to adhere (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934) The pact amounted to an agreement that, if any Eastern European State burst out of its frontiers, the others would join...
...these two rather long and sharp thorns in the olive branch extended by the Fuehrer, and the solon of France are carefully scrutinizing them under their high-powered microscopes to see wherein lies the rub. Clearly there is something which has aroused the suspicious of Flandin, Eden, Benes, Litvinoff and the other members of the continental brain-trust...