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Shigemitsu & Litvinoff. In Moscow, truce grew last week directly out of negotiations carried on for the past three weeks by roly-poly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu (who is a great pal of pegleg Correspondent Walter Duranty). The facts about disputed Changkufeng Hill as far as the diplomats could agree last week were: 1) although Moscow claimed the hill under a Russo-Chinese treaty of 1886, for many years it had been completely vacant; 2) Koreans and Manchukuoans had from time to time gone to it on festival pilgrimages unhindered by Red Army...
Soviet Russia had on its hands fortnight ago a frontier clash among the Amur River islands which ended when Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff secured hasty withdrawal of the Russian forces, claimed the Japanese had withdrawn too as promised by their Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu in Moscow (TIME, July 12). Last week Mr. Shigemitsu delicately hinted that there had been no Japanese promise to withdraw, and wrathful Comrade Litvinoff, on discovering that the Japanese either had not withdrawn or anyhow were on the disputed islands again within 48 hours, was in no mood to continue meek and conciliatory when news arrived...
With world headlines screaming the nearest thing to outbreak of a Russo-Japanese war, U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies was last week a busy conciliator in Moscow, conferring with pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu and portly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff between the bouts of these two diplomats over a pair of uninhabited islands covered with swamp grass which seemed capable of setting Eastern Asia more or less aflame...
...front of the reviewing stand were many of the highest officers in the Japanese Army & Navy: Vice Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Commander of the Shanghai fleet; General Yoshinori Shirakawa, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Shanghai; Maj.-General Kenkichi Uyeda; Consul General Kuramatsu Murai; Minister to China Mamoru Shigemitsu. Behind them loomed the big foreign military attachés of Britain, France, Italy, the U. S. These white officials left the stand as soon as the review was over. The crowd pressed round to listen to speeches...