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Russia has her paws full fighting Germany. And since she is doing a good job of it, she had better not take on more than she can handle by trying also to fight Japan. Nobody knows it better than Maxim Litvinoff. This was the news that he last week conveyed by implication to the U.S. people...
...tenor, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has acquired a million-dollar gift in the form of a collection of its own choosing. The museum, already the possessor of one of the best public collections of early American arts and crafts, has for six years been helping Patron Maxim Karolik pick up the best American antiques in the 13 original colonies...
...last fortnight's opening 350 pieces had been brought together, studied, documented and installed in a new wing built jointly by Karolik and the museum. Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall headed a long list of Back Bay notables who gathered to gaze and admire. But Maxim Karolik was not there. He had slipped out a back door as the distinguished guests walked in the front entrance. "I consider it iss correct, it iss even chic that the Karoliks should not go to the opening," he explained. "It iss better that the collection should shine by its own glory...
...China Clipper in San Francisco, Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff stepped on U.S. soil at week's end for the first time in eight years. After a 24-day, 20,000-mile airplane journey from Kuibyshev, Comrade Litvinoff and his snowy-haired English wife looked like any bourgeois tourists who had not had enough sleep...
...back in good grace, he returned to the U.S. as Russia's Ambassador, entrusted with the vital job of arranging war collaboration. He arrived in a capital shocked by news of Japan's attack. Maxim Litvinoff's pleasure was tempered with gravity: Soviet Russia's greatest diplomat had stepped into the greatest responsibility he had ever known...