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...Stalin the bourgeois world is as unreal as Soviet Russia was to Calvin Coolidge. Maxim Litvinov knows the outside world, understands the way capitalists think. Tactfully he dissociates himself from Communism's missionary society, the Third International, and its fight to spread world revolution...
...fact that Maxim Litvinov, a moderate at heart, has been able to hold his popularity and power in the Communist Party is just another paradox of the Stalin regime. Some 100% Bolshevists excuse him for the position he holds. As Foreign Commissar it is his duty to move among tainted bourgeois, wear bourgeois clothes. It is not unnatural that he should occasionally think bourgeois thoughts. With his wife and two children and one "house worker" he occupies a four-room apartment over a garage behind the former palace of a Moscow tycoon. Official dinners are held in state rooms...
...Russia delights in Comrade Litvinov's best known performance: a blunt demand at every European disarmament conference for complete and immediate disarmament, which never fails to show up the quibbling and hypocrisy of his Capitalist colleagues, despite the Soviet Army of 800,000 men. But Comrade Litvinov does really believe in total disarmament and has frequently presented a plan calling for reduction, not limitation, of armaments, according to a mathematical formula. He blazed with anger in 1929 when little U. S. Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson privately denounced the Litvinov Plan as presented in bad faith, then presented a plan...
...should call Gibson a contemptible little bounder," drawled British-born Mrs. Litvinov...
...Comrade Litvinov again showed his desire to cooperate with the enemy, again anticipated an official U. S. move, this time by two years. At a League session to discuss world depression he proposed a pact to outlaw not only physical but economic war. Nub of the matter was an international agreement to refrain from dumping, to batter down all discriminatory tariff walls, and to require the sale of products on home markets at prices no higher than those demanded for the same products abroad. Most observers expect something very like the first two points to emerge from the World Economic...