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...Poland, the lean, sponging Rabbi-brother of Russia's roly-poly Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff makes a fairly good thing out of going down to the Bialystok station when "Maxie's" special train is going through to Warsaw, sometimes gets enough money to pay a month's rent, sometimes only one of Maxie's cigars, sometimes a cuffing from Maxie's Red Guards. Last week in Lodz the potent Bolshevik's indigent old sister Ester was shoved into the street by an irate landlord who dumped her furniture on the pavement...
Lord Beaverbrook's moneymaking, stunt-loving London Daily Express was not so generous, Rabbi Yankel Vallach of Lodz not so greedy, as TIME (People. Feb. 25) would have them. If Rabbi Vallach told the Express all he knew about his brother, Soviet Commissar Litvinoff, for 100 zloties, he received a mere $19 and not $1,900-a sum which would have made the good rabbi an exceedingly rich man among his people in Lodz...
Despite blast and counterblast between President Roosevelt and Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff, each of whom remains convinced that the other is a liar,† Russia's Amtorg Trading Corp. continues to buy in the U. S. much as if there had been no quarrel-making diplomatic recognition of Moscow by Washington (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Last week bustling Amtorg Board Chairman Ivan Boyeff signed in Pittsburgh a contract with Pittsburgh's United Engineering & Foundry Co. to buy more than $3,500,000 worth of electric-powered, roller-bearing equipment for the $700,000,000 Zaporozhstal (steel) Works, most...
...Nearly every week the Soviet Foreign Office induces one or more U. S. correspondents in Moscow to cable Comrade Litvinoff's further insistence that Mr. Roosevelt promised him a "loan," whereas the White House insists that the President promised a "credit" which Litvinoff agreed the Kremlin would spend on U. S. goods but which the Kremlin now rejects...
...know me. . . . Then he stepped on the platform and we walked up and down. . . . We talked of our other brothers. He gave me a cigar. And all the time his guards were following. . . ." Last year Rabbi Vallach; ill, wrote to Maxim-Moses for money. Back came a reply from Litvinoffs secretary: "According to ... the Soviet Constitution money may not be sent outside Russia, and Comrade Minister Litvinoff will not break...