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...pointed out that polo was played many centuries ago by the horsemen of Tibet who gave it its name pulu. Ambassador Bullitt, in trig khaki riding breeches and a well-cut tweed coat, umpired last week's match while War Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff sat on the sidelines...
Since then secret negotiations have been proceeding between Paris, London and Moscow. The fathers of the new scheme to keep Europe's peace are M. Barthou and Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, but they need a potent godfather to urge their plans upon Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Last week Sir John Simon assumed this role with Augustan magnanimity...
...Mussolini, Austen Chamberlain, and the late great peace men of France and Germany. Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann. Today the Locarno Treaty, still in full force, binds all the signatory powers to maintain unchanged the western frontier of Germany adjoining France and Belgium. The new scheme fathered by Comrade Litvinoff and M. Barthou is to fix the other frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic verbal form was outlined to the Hitler Government by Comrade Litvinoff the last time he passed through Berlin. Hotly German Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath cried "Nein!" That rebuff made...
...most cherished dreams for expansion?so much the better for peace. The opening gambit last week faced the Hitler Government with proof that Nazi Germany has been diplomatically encircled. In blazoning this encirclement to the whole world Godfather Sir John acted as he did partly because Fathers Barthou and Litvinoff of the Eastern Locarno had warned him that, should he refuse to put pressure on Germany, they were ready to protect themselves by signing a mutual pact of military alliance. Since France and Russia possess the two largest armies in the world such an alliance would gravely upset Europe...
Because he gets around the world much more than other Bolshevik statesmen, Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, smart, roly-poly Soviet Foreign Commissar, has been tub-thumping for years in highest Moscow circles for some move to put a better face on the tyranny of ruling 147,000,000 Russians by means of a secret police of unlimited terroristic power. Last week Comrade Litvinoff got his way and dispatches from Moscow led U. S. headline-writers to splash out with SOVIET ABOLISHES ITS SECRET POLICE...