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...speak later," cried President Henderson, but by this time Mr. Gibson had left the rostrum and was perched on the edge of a chair. When the U. S. Ambassador was about to make his third start, he saw that Soviet Delegate Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov had arisen. "For several weeks, even months," observed the Russian, "several delegations have been talking continuously, while others have not spoken at all ! Unless they have lost the habit of speaking, delegates should be allowed to speak as they wish...
Soviet Russia alone came forward last week to support President Hoover's proposal (Italy and certain minor nations having already done so). Cried big, bearish Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, "My government will accept no resolution terminating this Conference which does not embody the principle of one-third reduction of arms...
Speaking for Soviet Russia, roly-poly Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov reminded the Conference that more than four years ago he proposed "complete disarmament" (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927). Having been cut at the present Conference by all the U. S. Delegates, Comrade Litvinov enjoyed smirking: "My Government favors complete disarmament, it favors partial disarmament, it favors qualitative, quantitative and real disarmament of every kind." (That day U. S. Delegate Senator Swanson so far unbent as to chat for two minutes with Red Litvinov...
...Tewfik wears high-powered spectacles with the thickest lenses in all Turkey. He, by six years of astute diplomacy, has made the Soviet Union small Turkey's fast & firm friend. While a Red Army commander stepped forward to greet General Ismet, Tewfik talked with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov winced slightly at the too terrific blaring of the Red Army band which had burst into Turkey's national anthem: Istiklal Marsi (March of Independence).* In a Rolls-Royce the Turks were driven between two miles of cheering, flag-waving Muscovites to their lodgings in the ornate palace of Moscow...
Fortunately Foreign Commissar Litvinov has an English wife, gay Ivy Low. She broke the Communist ice, whirled out upon the floor, heartened other Soviet wives to dance (badly). From a fox-trot the orchestra switched to a tango, then to a throbbing Cuban rumba. In 20 minutes scores of Comrades and their wives were cavorting like Capitalists. Later there were caviar, French champagne, rich Russian pastries. The revel continued until dawn. Said Premier General Ismet Pasha, on behalf of Turkish Dictator Kemal, "I and the whole Turkish delegation [34]; have an unforgettable impression of the magnificence of our reception...