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France's determinations to keep the League of Nations alive at the cost of considerable insecurity to herself shows Gallic tenacity in its highest degree. Her forthcoming treaty with Russia would no doubt be a far more effective weapon in keeping Germany on the floor if Comrade Litvinov were allowed to have his way. The Russian Foreign Minister, realistic as ever, prefers an alliance providing for instant mobilization of both French and Soviet armies in the event of provocative action on the part of Germany. The French government, however, faithful as ever to its patient at Geneva, has insisted mulishly...
...Most notable caller expected at the White House this week was Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Russia's rolly-polly Foreign Commissar, who last week arrived...
...debt ($4,500,000,000) still stands and will be paid, in part, whenever the U. S. decides how many of what kind of dollars it will accept. Looming on the President's list of callers and obstructing Sir Frederick's visit further was Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, coming from Moscow this week to discuss Russian Recognition...
Speeding from Moscow to Washington last week via Berlin and Paris, roly-poly Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinov said of his coming talks with President Roosevelt about U. S. recognition of the U. S. S. R.: "As far as I am concerned everything could be settled in half an hour...
...Soviet Foreign Minister, with whom President Roosevelt will negotiate Russian recognition in the White House, is roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, once famed for insistently proposing at Geneva total disarmament of all nations, now grown more practical. With his English wife Ivy he lives not in the Kremlin, as do most of Stalin's intimates, but at a distance, suggestive of the "taint" felt by Communists to adhere to anyone forced to deal directly and continuously with Capitalist governments...