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Naturally Comrade Litvinov could not resist a temptation to cry the equivalent of "Copy cat!" last week, a most unwise thing to do because the Soviet Government is now making every effort to get itself recognized by President Hoover. "I scarcely know,'' said Litvinov scathingly, "whether Mr. Gibson spoke in support of my plan or in spite...
...tainted and unmentionable plan was and is, of course, the one presented by Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. When he first went to Geneva (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927) he said that Soviet Russia was ready to completely disarm within one year, if all other nations would do likewise. Since then, plump, indefatigable Comrade Litvinov, who looks like a squirrel with a nut in either cheek, has been slowly learning that whatever plan he may offer will be pigeonholed, at least for some time to come...
Protocol signed. Under these pleasant auspices the Rumanian Minister to Poland, Carol A. Davila, sped post haste to Moscow (where he found thermometers at 22 degrees below zero) and announced himself ready to sign the Litvinov protocol. After a little diplomatic jockeying the delegates assembled at the Soviet Foreign Office, and sat down around a table draped in dark magenta-not red. Three movie arc-lights sputtered, seven cameras whirred. Then came a puzzling interlude...
Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov arose, and in the course of welcoming the plenipotentiaries of Rumania, Poland, Latvia and Esthonia, referred to Rumania as "a country with which we had serious difficulties-difficulties not settled by this protocol...
What did that mean-Bessarabia? Oracle Litvinov did not explain. Perhaps he was alluding to the several hundred pinpricks and quarrels which have estranged Bucharest and Moscow. But whatever he meant, 'his words provoked no slightest frown or trace of annoyance on the smiling face of Carol A. Davila...