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Seldom does smart Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff go home to Moscow empty handed. In Geneva last week, while no one else was getting anything substantial at the Dis armament Conference (see col. 3), he put screws on King Alexander of Jugoslavia to recognize the Soviet Union. Roly-poly Comrade Litvinoff had just obtained in Geneva recognition from the other two countries of the Little Entente, Czechoslovakia and Rumania. Since King Carol was at last able to stomach Bolsheviks, why should not his brother-in-law King Alexander...
Roly-poly Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, next climbed the rostrum. In all previous Disarmament sessions, Comrade Litvinoff's tactics have been to demand 100% disarmament at once, to pledge Russia to anything the other powers would agree to, and then to sit back and chuckle hugely as red waves of embarrassment flushed his capitalist friends' cheeks. But things have changed in the past year. The growth of Hitlerism, formal recognition of U. S. S. R. by the U. S. and the possibility that Russia may soon take out a full League membership have left the capitalist world...
First he announced that, after years of dodging all responsibility for enforcing peace, Soviet Russia was now willing and waiting to join some system of enforced sanctions such as France has always cried for. Always eager to help, Comrade Litvinoff suggested that the sanctions be so graded that nations like France could be as forceful as they liked while others, like the U. S., could be relieved of all military action. Comrade Litvinoff's second suggestion was that the Disarmament Conference, already over two years old, be reorganized as a permanent body...
...mace of the Parliament of Ontario, seized by the U. S. Army in 1813 (see p. 19). ¶ Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky visited the White House to discuss Russian debt negotiations and presented the philatelic President with a volume containing a new issue of Soviet stamps, sent by Commissar Litvinoff. ¶By two strokes of his official pen the President: 1) vetoed a bill which would have guaranteed minimum incomes to substitute mail carriers in the Post Office; 2) abolished the office of Alien Property Custodian established during the War to take over some two billion dollars worth of firms...
...door to the Baltic is a coast line on the Gulf of Finland only 300 mi. long, and the three little states overlook that channel down the Baltic. The least Russia can do is to be a little friendlier to them than anybody else is. Last week Maxim Litvinoff, roly-poly Commissar for Foreign Affairs, met in Moscow with the plenipotentiaries of the three. They took up the two-party non-aggression pacts they had signed with Russia four years ago and extended them for another ten years. Glowing with the respectability of a proved peaceful intention. Mr. Litvinoff talked...