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...conceivable in the present political and moral situation of the world." President Hoover was represented last week by Ambassador (to Belgium) Hugh Gibson. "We shall contribute," said Mr. Gibson, "a great deal of silence." Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia was represented by Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. "This is the last time that Soviet Russia will send a delegation to this Preparatory Conference," he declared, recalling that three years ago he submitted a proposal for "absolute disarmament" of all nations, and later a proposal for "50% disarmament," both of which were rejected-Mr. Gibson having been...
Young Comrade Litvinov. The stock control of Lena Goldfields Ltd. is held by a small group of U. S. and British tycoons who maintain the privacy of their identity. Board Chairman of the company in London is Herbert Guedalla, cousin of elegant British essayist-poet-biographer Philip Guedalla. Of the Directors close-lipped Major Frederick Davis Gwynne is easily outstanding. He went to Moscow in 1925 and signed the original terms of the Concession Agreement, a Russian signatory being young Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov who has since risen until today he is Foreign Minister of the Soviet State. Last week...
Into this last statement might have been read a threat of Soviet bovcott against the U. S. unless the Fish Committee exonerated Amtorg. In Moscow, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Litvinov enunciated this threat explicitly. If the committee was not impressed, the business world that does a $100,000,000 per year business with Russia was. The New York Journal of Commerce took the committee to task for trampling about in a field of international trade where it had no business...
...communiqué to the World press, these points were made: first His Holiness is "highly pleased" that the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Edgar Borah (casual Presbyterian) made private protest anent the persecutions to Soviet Acting Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maximovitch Litvinov. The Vatican further intimated that Pope Pius is "deeply disappointed" because, despite his appeals, no Christian Government whatsoever has made any official, diplomatic protest to Moscow; third, the Vatican intimated that Pope Pius is particularly disappointed with the Government of the Irish Free State and with those of their Most...
...trial at Paris last week was one Comrade Saveli Litvinov, round-faced Russian of ebullient-humor, who is charged with forging notes to a total value of more than $1,000,000. He claims to be the brother of Soviet Russia's Foreign Minister, moon-faced Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov...