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...world knew, that the Soviet State has always had in Moscow the Comintern (see col. 3) which has as its avowed object the violent overthrow of the U. S. and all other non-Communist governments. Yet, knowing this, the President accepted assurances from Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff which meant nothing at all if they did not mean that Dictator Stalin would abolish the Comintern or move it out of Russia. Since this was never contemplated, Soviet leaders have assumed from the first that Mr. Roosevelt was joining them in an elaborate political pretense. Last week many Reds were...
...Soviet tourist bureau, Russian concert singers and Big Reds of all sorts have felt they had a friend in likeable "Bill" Bullitt, and something like another friend in charming Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The sudden note from Washington last week was based not on previous Soviet violations of the Litvinoff pledge of noninterference with U. S. domestic affairs, but on the latest Comintern Congress in Moscow, at which U. S. Communist leaders in numbers openly vaunted their Red activities (TIME, Aug. 12 & 26). Ambassador Bullitt first announced that he would be out of Moscow during the Congress, visiting Soviet Black...
...telling Washington correspondents at the State Department not to interpret the Bullitt note's strong language as meaning that President Roosevelt means to sever U. S.-Soviet relations. Its meaning last week seemed to be that the Administration, whether or not it was ever privately fooled by the Litvinoff pledge, does not choose to be fooled publicly any longer...
When the League Council finally met to rubber stamp this formula, Ethiopia's Professor Jeze made his only score for the week. He glared at President Litvinoff and hissed: "You offer us the choice between suicide and assassination. Well, we prefer assassination...
...Soviet Government "would not permit formation or residence on its territory of any organization or group aimed at bringing about by force any change in the political or social order of the United States." If this pledge was worth the paper on which Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff signed, it meant that the Comintern, or Moscow organization of the World's Communist Parties for "the World Revolution of the World Proletariat," would be dissolved. Fortnight ago it was still going so strong that its Seventh Congress met in the former Hall of Nobles, but efforts were made...