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Disarmament? Getting down to business, M. Litvinoff. persistent spokesman for the Soviet Union's standing proposal of total disarmament for all nations, declared...
...Light." Without mentioning Capitalism by name, Communist Litvinoff then turned his speech into a suave, polished, 100% Red enumeration of Capitalist failures and concluded with a dramatic understatement: "Against this gloomy background it is impossible, in my opinion, not to discern in all that is going on in my country a ray of light. ... I hope that ... I have not transgressed the limits permitted by my agreement with President Roosevelt regarding propaganda...
...Rome. Of all places Commissar Litvinoff chose the city of Pope Pius XI and of Benito Mussolini as his next destination. Just before sailing from Manhattan on the crack Italian liner Conte de Savoía he lost his hat twice in a wild mêlée of Communist sympathizers and autograph hunters, retrieved it a second time with the merry cry, ''Ah-at last I have caught your American tempo...
...Italy's. Josef Stalin and Benito Mussolini are the infinities at which the extremes of dictatorship meet. Next to Russia. Italy has the nearest thing to a nation-wide planned economic system, the Mussolini "Corporative State" (TIME, Nov. 20 et ante). In the Rome of the Caesars Communist Litvinoff will be welcomed and understood, but Italians were ready to bet their black shirts that Atheist Litvinoff will not be received in the Rome of the Church...
...religious rights of foreigners in the Soviet Union, had paved the way for a rapprochement be tween Moscow and the Vatican. "About that," he twinkled, "I do not want to make propaganda." With asperity in Vatican City the Papal newsorgan L'Osservatore Romano last week declared that Comrade Litvinoff's pledges to President Roosevelt on the freedom of religious practice in U. S. S. R. are not only worthless but "clearly mean ingless...