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Phrases with which the President opened his letters were: "I am very happy. ... I am glad. ... I thank you. . . . I am happy. . . ." Only one Litvinoff letter opened on so cheerful a note. The exchange covered five points: 1) Recognition; 2) Propaganda; 3) Freedom of worship; 4) Protection of nationals; and 5) Debts and claims...
Horse Trade. "If one wants to estimate the 'horse trade,' I should say M. Litvinoff has got perhaps a shade the worst of it," declared Muscovite Walter Duranty of the New York Times, "but. on the other hand, to vary the metaphor, Mr. Litvinoff is taking home a pretty fat turkey for Thanksgiving...
...Workers' Party whose avowedly Communist leaders will continue their close liaison with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Comintern, Third International or World Communist Party which is technically superior to both and retains its Moscow headquarters. On the other hand, M. Litvinoff promised that "it will be the fixed policy of the Government" of Russia (he could not promise for the Party headed by Josef Stalin) to "refrain" in the most scrupulous manner from any interference in U. S. affairs; to "restrain" from such interference "all organizations of the Soviet Government or under its direct...
...issue of freedom of worship the President insisted on a long series of guarantees protecting U. S. citizens and U. S. pastors in Russia, which Comrade Litvinoff informed him are already contained in Soviet law, quoting the pertinent passages...
Early on the Roosevelt bandwagon, irrepressible Bill Bullitt turned up in London as Executive Officer of the U. S. Delegation to the World Monetary and Economic Conference. Offside he had long conversations with Chief Soviet Delegate Litvinoff. Possibly these talks paved the way for recognition...