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Chief Russian delegate was that old veteran of Geneva conferences, roly-poly Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, but in future he will have two confreres to assist him. Vladimir Potemkin, Ambassador to Rome, and Boris Stein, Minister to Helsingfors...
...came to throw a magnificent bridge across the Seine in memory of his father Tsar Alexander III. Today le Pont Alexandre-Trois is still the most magnificent in Paris and across it in his long-snouted Renault limousine M. Barthou has ridden in animated conversation with Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, the roly-poly one time traveling salesman who is now Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...Comrade Litvinoff was hovering last week just beyond the Swiss frontier in the tiny French village of Douvaine, waiting for M. Barthou to send the word that would mean for Bolshevik Russia a grand entry with appropriate nourish into the League of Nations. In one of their frequent talks by telephone last week. Comrade Litvinoff grew so impatient that he hung up on M. Barthou in vexation, but the Gascon grandfather only chuckled, "Tiens, tiens! Ces enfants! They must learn patience...
...Smartest Little Statesman." Foreign Minister Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, is taking his turn as President of the League Council. To oblige M. Barthou last week M. Benes paid Russia the unprecedented compliment of popping into his limousine and riding as Council President 20 miles out to Comrade Litvinoff's village. He brought an invitation for Russia to join the League signed by 30 countries whose signatures M. Barthou had obtained. Comrade Litvinoff "telegraphed" Russia's acceptance on a blank which M. Benes stuffed into his pocket before dashing back to Geneva. President Benes convoked the Council. Then Poland...
When this swing around Europe was over Louis Barthou had the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia) pretty completely in his pocket, how completely appeared last week when Czechoslovak League Council President Benes gladly ran the Frenchman's errands to Litvinoff...