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...stares only until the quicker-witted correspondents started to laugh at the President's little joke. Seriously he then announced the exchange at 11:50 p. m. the night before of five sets of diplomatic notes at the White House between himself and chubby, thick-tongued Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Secretary of State Hull's absence from the U. S. left unchanged the fact the President of the U. S. was his own Foreign Minister...
Commented famed Correspondent Walter Duranty of the New York Times, who had accompanied Litvinoff from Moscow: "It is a Yankee horse trade. M. Litvinoff is a pretty shrewd trader himself, but old-fashioned Dutch-American stock has done some trading...
Just as President Roosevelt and Comrade Litvinoff were fraternizing last week (see p. 12), the Soviet War Council at Moscow, with blazing indiscretion, issued Order...
...means dead, though Dictator Stalin has ostentatiously withdrawn from its Executive Committee, is the Comintern or Third International, the world agency of proletarian revolution. While Comrade Litvinoff was en route to Washington, dispatches from Moscow reported that "the windows of the Comintern Building are dark." Last week the Comintern Executive Committee issued an appeal "to the toiling masses of the world," bade them to "Join ranks with the Soviet Union proletariat! Forge a uniform Revolutionary Front against Fascism and War! Against Japanese Imperialism and World Imperialism! For a Soviet China and a Soviet Germany...
Equally embarrassing to Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff was the U. S. "Workers' Party" (Communist) which persisted in announcing during the New York mayoralty campaign that one of its main objectives is "Militant support of the Soviet Union!" Finally in Moscow last week the inopportune death of cackling, seamy-skinned Comrade Sen Katayama, 74-year-old Japanese member of the Comintern Executive Committee, forced Dictator Stalin to make open display of the fact that he is still pro-Comintern (i.e. pro-World Revolution), despite his resignation from the Comintern Committee...