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...Moscow Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota, before auction day came, went to see Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff to protest. Mr. Litvinoff, though he had gone to Mr. Ota's reception a fortnight ago, sent out word that now he had "no time" to discuss the matter. The Japanese Government said it had not been informed of the new rate, it was a "discourtesy" and "a serious breach of international agreement," it all proved how untrustworthy Russians are "even when matters of importance are involved...
...Willmott Harsant Lewis, Washington correspondent of the London Times, Walter Duranty is a veteran at his post. Sent to Russia by the New York Times in 1921, he has been there off & on ever since, has gradually become the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. When Commissar Maxim Litvinoff arrived last November in the U. S., Correspondent Duranty arrived with him. When Ambassador William C. Bullitt made his first official visit to the U. S. S. R. last December, Duranty was at his elbow. If any one man could be said to have reconciled Capitalist U. S. and Communist...
Russians assumed that President Roosevelt was not fooled when he affected to accept as a condition for U. S. recognition of the Soviet Union bland Comrade Litvinoff's transparent pledge that no Soviet official would thereafter engage in efforts to overthrow the U. S. Government (TIME...
Slated for the great honor of election to the Party's Central Committee by the Congress last week was another Jew, roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. A few years ago Stalin, after he ousted Jew Leon Trotsky, was markedly opposed to admitting Jews into high Soviet office, but with Kaganovich now his right hand man and Litvinoff wearing the laurels of his triumphant Washington visit. Russia's Dictator rated last week as benignly pro-Semite...
Calling Chancellor Hitler a man bent on achieving Germany's destiny "by fire and sword," calling Japan "the darkest storm cloud on the political horizon," Comrade Litvinoff said flatly: "I disagree with President Roosevelt when he says that only 8% of the people in the world want war. Those 8% are the people in power in certain countries. . . . Between Germany and Japan exists a common spirituality-a desire to fight...