Word: litvinov
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...shipbuilders overlooked no one: Sophie Tucker, Mrs. Henry J. Kaiser, Elsa Maxwell, Madame Ivy Litvinov, the Dionne Quintuplets, Barbara Douglas Arnold, daughter of Planemaker Donald Douglas. For helping to launch the S.S. Mormacisle a $225 gold pin was given to Mrs. James M. Mead Jr., daughter-in-law of the Senate investigator himself...
...Maxim Litvinov, longtime Soviet Foreign Commissar and Ambassador to the U.S., was "released from his duties" as Deputy Foreign Minister. Into his shoes stepped the former Soviet Ambassadors to Britain and Japan, Fedor Gusev and Yakov Malik...
...found out that Stalin was worried, too. Stalin had gone all out for cooperation with capitalist countries; the build-up of Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks in Russia would make a shift embarrassing. The Russian people certainly did not want to contemplate the prospect of World War III. Maxim Litvinov, who represents those Communists who believe in cooperation with capitalist democracy, was pointedly brought from his obscurity to attend a Moscow dinner for Hopkins...
...Councilor, impeccable in tails. U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman looked like a nervous young curate at an Episcopal convention-out of place in his too long, double-breasted business suit which he had tried to formalize with a stiff collar. The collar only served to make him seem uncomfortable. Mmes. Litvinov and Maisky were conspicuously, modishly gowned...
...principle of self-determination to the disputed areas, plebiscites to be taken to ascertain their loyalties. But the fundamental solution of the problem can be secured not merely through frontier rectifications; Russia must be given security from aggression by an establishment of that collective security for which Maxim Litvinov waged a fruitless battle throughout the Thirties. In 1919, Clemenceau and Foch gave up their demands to German territory for an Anglo-American promise to institute an effective system for main-taining peace; that promise was not kept. At the end of World War II, Russia may be expected to cooperate...