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...question, London is the only place in the world where Russia can obtain the large credits requisite to her reconstruction. The situation was therefore one of extreme seriousness for the Bolsheviki and it was probably because of the gravity of the present stage of negotiations that Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, scurried from Moscow across the face of Europe to the British Metropolis. The Times, displaying an attitude entirely in keeping with that of the greater part of the British press, printed a letter from one Athelstan Riley, Seigneur of Trinity, Jersey, in which lofty scorn is apparent...
...Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs, said: "Everything tends to show that the police acted on instructions from the central authorities . . . the action of the German police was audacious and insolent...
Said Deputy Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov: "England, Italy, Germany, who all have recognized Soviet Russia de jure, are capable of absorbing all our raw materials and providing all the manufactured goods we need. We didn't buy recognition. Some countries are still trying to bargain with us; others still are muttering about old debts, etc. We refuse any such negotiations or any preliminary conditions. We demand, first of all, de jure recognition. That...