Word: litvinoffs
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...rough & tumble shyster lawyer, alternately jabbing insults and drawing laughs, are not those of professional diplomacy and last week the Delegate of Uruguay, phlegmatic Dr. Alberto Guani, was visibly aghast when his duty called him to cross verbal rapiers in Geneva with Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...born of Jewish parents in what is now Poland, scraped his living precariously in England as a traveling salesman, and toward the close of the Tsarist Regime acted as a fence in disposing of valuables obtained by Joseph Stalin and other terrorists. At evidence an opponent may produce, M. Litvinoff is prone to shout "Forged!" and in Geneva last week he was itching...
...roaring fashion last week Russia's roly-poly Foreign Minister pitched into Uruguay's Guani and soon sent the League of Nations off into gales of laughter by reading two cablegrams sent to. him in Moscow by the former Soviet Minister to Uruguay who sat beside M. Litvinoff last week. Russia, said her Foreign Minister, had refused, just before the cablegrams were sent, to admit to Russia an anarchist named Simon Radovitsky whom Uruguay was anxious to deport...
Hilarity among League statesmen by this time was such that the grave rebuttal of Dr. Guani, who cited dry instances of revolutionary activity abroad by the organizations Joseph Stalin dominates, went unheeded. At one document cited by Dr. Guani, M. Litvinoff shouted "Forged...
...Great stir greeted word that Belgium had actually adopted the no-credit-to-Italy sanction, but this exciting news proved false. At week's end only Communist Russia had officially shut off extension of credits to Fascist Italy. Bursting with suspicion, Russia's Foreign Commissar Litvinoff glared at Geneva's assembled Capitalist statesmen, told them tartly that the Soviet Union will keep vigilant watch and at the first sign that they are chiseling on sanctions will herself resume trade with Italy...