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...Germans, trying to enlarge their Caucasian bridgehead in the Kuban, threw eight to ten divisions into a fruitless offensive. In the Kalinin sector, northwest of Moscow, General Maxim Purkaev, Soviet Military Attache in Berlin when war began, led a limited Soviet drive through the scrubby birch forests. But the most important action was taking place behind the fronts...
Twenty years after her first marriage, 15 months after her second divorce (from Sinclair Lewis), vigorous Columnist Dorothy Thompson said her next would be Maxim Kopf, refugee Czech painter...
...Manhattan last week 2,500 trade unionists jammed into Mecca Temple to protest the execution by the Soviet Government of Henryk Ehrlich and Victor Alter, Polish labor leaders. This was the first U.S. gathering on the cause célèbre since Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff had announced that Ehrlich and Alter had been liquidated for subversive activities (TIME, March 15). Cried A.F. of L. President William Green: "Shameless, wanton execution. . . ." New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia called it "Russia's Sacco-Vanzetti case." Many another U.S. labor leader voiced outraged protest...
While in the U.S. Anthony Eden will have the run of the White House, will confer with Wendell Willkie, Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong. He may make one formal speech, perhaps in Maryland (over which his great-great-grandfather, Sir Robert Eden, once ruled as colonial Governor), plans also to visit U.S. war plants, military and naval establishments...
Lost Cause. In a heavy-handed manner which did U.S.-Russian understanding no good, Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff announced the deaths in a letter to A.F. of L. President William Green. Litvinoff said the two men fled to Moscow in 1939. They were sentenced to death in August 1941 for subversive activities, but were released at the Polish Government's request...