Word: litvinoffs
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...theatrical platform when there is a lull between the periods of intense action. Minor plots, and threads of plots, all-essential to the main action, and yet not commonly associated with it, are now taking place. With naval problems being relegated to the rear of the stage, Foreign Commissar Litvinoff of Russia has advanced towards the footlights, and for the past week has been affording foreign correspondents not a little glamour to color their often monotonous dispatches...
...important event of the meeting was that Russia has apparently resumed its normal place among nations. This was undoubtedly the only meaning of the speech by M. Litvinoff, who opened the session by outlining a scheme calling for immediate and complete abandonment of all military and naval forces. Such a plan is hopelessly beside the point and was not intended to convince anyone, for the League has definitely decided that disarmament must be on the basis of security, which calls for no more than the reduction of armaments to the minimum needs of each nation. The proposal was boldly...
...their way to Geneva, the Russian delegation, headed by the garrulous Maxim Litvinoff, stopped off in Berlin to confer with the German delegation while the latter were figuratively packing their suitcases The reason for this rendezvous is pretty well known in European diplomatic circles. It is the intention of these nations to pour coals of fire upon their late and present enemies by being the outstanding espousers of world disarmament at the conference to come. Says M. Litvinoff: "Only 12.7 percent of the Russian budget goes for military enterprises, where-as the other powers, except Germany, spend between 20 percent...
...herself is the militaristic nation and the German and Russian orges are the real peacemakers. Foreign Minister Briand talked with Ambassador Loudon of Holland, who is to preside at the conference, and it is believed that Briand requested Loudon to check with his gavel any long speeches by Litvinoff that would quote statistics on the post bellum expenditures of the peaceloving Allies...
...Bush conferred with Trotzky, Kameneff, Tehiclierin, Litvinoff and others. He then gave interviews which were published in Izvestia and other Russian papers, From Moscow came a report of his remarks: " I am bold to say that not one American in ten thousand has any idea of the order and generally good conditions prevailing here. . . . The Russian leaders strike me as intelligent, courageous and sincere. . . . But there is one thing these people have to learn . . . that they cannot expect American cooperation until they regain American confidence. . . Optimistic as my comments may seem to many people at home, that should...