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Twice last week British Ambassador Sir Esmond Ovey clapped his hat on his bald, aristocratic head and left his Moscow Embassy. First he went over to the office of Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov to demand the immediate release of four British engineers: W. H. Thornton, W. H. MacDonald, John Cushny, and one Gregory, still held in Soviet jails last week on charges of sabotage (TIME, March...
...unless the Metropolitan-Yickers engineers were released at once, unless the Soviet Government promised that they would never have to stand trial, Britain will place an embargo on all Russian goods, effective April 17, when the present Anglo-Russian trade agreement expires. Before Sir Esmond had finished, rotund Commissar Litvinov interrupted...
Four of the other British chelovyeks were not quite so chestny. Though treated almost as well, they remained in jail. Ambassador Ovey was allowed to see them once, in the presence of OGPU officials. Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov declared that they would be given a fair and public trial in April, with Russian lawyers assigned to their defense. Meanwhile, panic seized U. S. engineers in Russia who had no embassies at all to defend them. From Moscow a General Electric official telephoned Berlin that he was "unable to hold the men." Hardly had he rung off before...
...Assembly rose and dispersed (it did not technically adjourn last week), the Committee of 21 queried Washington by cable and Moscow through Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinov who was just leaving Geneva for home. "I must consult my Government," said Comrade Litvinov, indicating that Moscow might not reply to the League until after Franklin Delano Roosevelt is president...
...Russo-Chinese rapprochement seems in Chinese eyes appeared when the Nanking Government appointed its Minister to the U. S., Dr. W. W. Yen, to be Ambassador to Russia. Dr. Yen, who has been fighting China's losing League battle in Geneva, prepared last week to follow Comrade Litvinov straight to Moscow...