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Died. Sir Sidney Low, 76, famed British historian, father-in-law of Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs; ? of heart failure caused by asthma; in London...
...where as Japanese Ambassador he has stubbornly defended Japan before the League Council (TIME, Oct. 5 et seq.). Recalled by his father-in-law, tiny Mr. Yoshizawa who incessantly puffs enormous black cigars, took a ticket for Moscow where he will talk Manchuria with Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, then hurry across the trans-Siberian Railway to Manchuria and finally to Japan...
...Fears by the Great Powers of Soviet intervention in Manchuria were considerably calmed last week by eye witness reports and official reassurances issued at Moscow by Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. Hotly he emphasized the pledge of Russia's neutral intentions given two weeks ago (TIME...
Petition. During the Embassy garden party a cablegram was handed Lady Astor. She read it, walked across a terrace, dropped to a half-kneeling position and handed it to Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov. Cried she dramatically: "I come to you with a petition as the peasants were wont to do before the Tsar!" The message began: IN THE NAME OF HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES PLEASE HELP MY WIFE IN MOSCOW. . . . It was signed by one Dmitri Pavlovich Krynine, onetime Soviet expert on roadbuilding sent to the U. S. to study local methods, who was injured in a motor accident, decided...
...Litvinov mused a moment over the petition, then said he was sorry but the matter lay out of his province. Lady Astor passed the cablegram to the Soviet Literary & Educational Organization, host to the British party's tour. Next day a New York Herald Tribune reporter found Mrs. Krynine, dressed in blue cotton and canvas shoes, in a squalid, one-room, fourth-story Moscow flat. She said: "I am 48 and I want to live, but only if I can be with my son and husband." Professor Krynine said the Herald Tribune interview was the longest communication...