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...Excellency Maxim Litvinoff had already left for Moscow when Messrs Davis, Eden and Delbos brought in their windup-motion. Then up rose Chinese Delegate Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. "Now that the door to conciliation and mediation has been slammed in your face by the latest reply from the Japanese Government," Koo told the Conference, "will you not decide to withhold supplies of war materials and credits to Japan and extend aid to China? It is, in our opinion, the most modest way in which you can fulfill your obligations of helping to check Japanese aggression and uphold treaties...
...Return of Maxim (Lenfilm). Maxim (Boris Chirkov) personifies the spirit of the Russian revolution. Part I (The Youth of Maxim) introduced him as an oppressed worker in Tsarist Russia (TIME, April 29, 1935). His Return shows him as a wary revolutionist two years later...
Even more pleased is Artist Wyeth that his "very domestic" wife has never painted, that three of his five children do. A Wyeth maxim is that "no college ever turned out a first-rate artist." The only nonartistic Wyeth child is Nathaniel. 25, who is also the only one who went to school after the age of 12. His wife is a Pyle. Ann, 22, does not paint but writes music. Her husband paints. Andrew, 20, already paints so well that his first one-man show in Manhattan's Macbeth Gallery last month was a sellout. Henriette, 29, married...
...have devoted the last 30 years of my life to the cause of co-operation between Japan and China," said General Matsui, 60. "A Chinese maxim says that 'When you are convinced of righteousness, go straight forward, even against millions of opponents.' This exactly describes our present convictions. . . . Even now my heart is full of zeal to realize the salvation of the 400,000,000 people of China rather than to chastise...
...tinting their dispatches favorably to influence U. S. opinion, but Mr. Lyons thinks that once recognition was achieved the State has found it convenient to jockey out of Russia nearly all the more experienced U. S. correspondents who know too much about the last 20 years. Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff, charges Mr. Lyons, secured his own dismissal in 1934, and he thinks that today the Kremlin prefers to have in Moscow diplomatic and other representatives who are sufficiently Capitalist not to worry about whether Stalin has betrayed the Revolution: "The Kremlin . . . outwardly pretending satisfaction over the appointment of William...