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...such communications could give. . . . I shall take the liberty further to express the opinion that the abnormal situation . . . has an unfavorable effect not only on the interests of the two States concerned, but also on the general international situation. . . . The Soviet Government will be represented by Mr. M. M. Litvinov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, who will come to Washington at a time to be mutually agreed upon...
...envoy, 16 years have passed. In 1919 a favorable report on Bolshevik Russia by a young diplomat named William Christian Bullitt was rejected by Woodrow Wilson in Paris; no one believed Bullitt when he insisted that the Bolsheviks would remain in power. A roly-poly Russian named Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was refused a visa when Lenin appointed him Soviet Ambassador...
...likely, the Soviet Union is recognized by the United States within the year, the event may prove of considerable significance in our Asiatic relations, particularly with that fanatically aggressive nation, Japan. For should our trade with Russia expand (and that is the plum held out by the rotund M. Litvinov), a large part of it might very well be handled from Seattle and ports along that coast to Vladivostok, the outpost city of the Union in lower Siberia. This would undoubtedly be very satisfactory but for one important item: Tokio has its gourmandish eyes strongly focused on Vladivostok...
Moscow acted quickly. Every Soviet correspondent was withdrawn from Germany. The four German correspondents in Moscow were given 72 hours to leave Russia. Moscow papers scare-headed "Rupture of Press Relations!" Roly-poly Maxim Litvinov, Foreign Commissar, issued a statement...
Ivan Maisky, short and stocky Ambassador in London of the Soviet Union, made the speech taunting the Capitalist World which his chief, Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, was too smart to let any Russian make until he personally had negotiated an imposing series of non-aggression pacts in the lobbies of the Conference (TIME, July 17). Last week Comrade Litvinov was sipping the waters of a famed spa, when Comrade Maisky rose to shout: "The results of this Conference are something less than zero! . . . The only lesson we have learned is that a profound organic disease is eating away...