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...Litvinov. Responsible for Russia's end of such an agreement is the Soviet's shrewd, roly-poly Foreign Commissar...
Maximovitch Litvinov, who three weeks ago indignantly refused British Ambassador Sir Esmond Ovey's curt demand that the British engineers be released instantly and without trial...
...Comrade Litvinov, born Wallach, first attracted world attention 27 years ago in Paris. In the streets of Tiflis in the Caucasus an armored truck of the Russian Imperial Bank had just been held up by a hard-eyed young revolutionary, later to be known as Josef Stalin. Pudgy Comrade Litvinov appeared at a window of the Credit Lyonnais in Paris with a sheaf of 500-ruble notes recognized as part of the Tiflis loot. Litvinov escaped to Britain after convincing French Republicans that the bank robbery was a political not a criminal act. In Britain he became a traveling salesman...
...railway station. Quickly the young men in his Embassy announced that this was not an official recall; unofficially they let it be known that it was unlikely Sir Esmond would return to Moscow. In the smoky station was gathered the entire foreign diplomatic corps (but not Commissar Litvinov or his British wife, Ivy Low) to bid Sir Esmond and his wife Godspeed. As the train pulled out every hat was raised in silent salute. Up went the Ovey...
What British newspapers called the "unprecedented bluster" of Commissar Litvinov's speech made Britons wonder if after all the Soviet Government might not have some real evidence against the arrested engineers, particularly when two other engineers of the same firm arrested on the same charges at the same time, had been so promptly released. Proceeding cautiously, the Government planned to introduce in the House of Commons a bill empowering the Government to declare an embargo on April 17; but about the Moscow trial the Prime Minister would say nothing "because to do so would not be in interest...