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Baring his canine teeth in a merry grin, round little Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. shrewd, sly Foreign Commissar of the U. S. S. R., arrived in the U. S. last week. He promptly reminded the Press that President Roosevelt had "taken the initiative in addressing Mr. Kalinin." repeated the statement he had made in Berlin that as far as he was concerned it would take "less than half an hour" to conclude recognition negotiations between his country and President Roosevelt's. Commissar Litvinoff and the world at large had been beguiled by the friendliness of Franklin Roosevelt's invitation...
...Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, wearing a business suit out of deference to the Commissar's proletarianism, emerged through a cordon of vigilant police with a warm greeting. Also present was Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador, who two days later made up for the parties Comrade Litvinoff had missed when he deferred his trip to Angora (TIME, Nov. 6) by a sumptuous banquet in his honor. Footmen in red livery and gold buttons served caviar and champagne, there were crimson roses on the dinner table to honor the Soviet visitors, the turkey was called "Dindoneau a la Moskva...
...week wore on, as State Department conferences followed one another, Commissar Litvinoff came to realize that the trip was not to be entirely a bed of Red roses. He wanted to sign first and talk about details later. The State Department wanted to talk first, for an inquisitive Senate would have many a ticklish question to ask before it passed a recognition treaty, and sign later. When Secretary Hull sailed away to the Pan-American Congress, President Roosevelt took formal charge of the negotiations...
...conference between President Roosevelt and M. Litvinoff one of the most persistent of the American demands will be that the soviet rigorously eschew all Communist proselytizing in this country; there seems to be but little doubt that the Russians will accede to this. All over the world Red activity directed from Moscow has almost ceased, and the Soviet seems to have abandoned the idea of the world revolution for the time being, at least...
...days ago Litvinoff addressed the conference on the subject of the world's present condition. Advocating his pact for economic non-aggression, he held the attention of the entire body of delegates with an analysis of the post-warera. Reparations settlements, high tariff barriers, unprecedented unemployment, and disproportionate distribution of the world's gold supply the speaker cited as the chief reasons for our present uneasy international feelings...