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Chief Russian delegate was that old veteran of Geneva conferences, roly-poly Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, but in future he will have two confreres to assist him. Vladimir Potemkin, Ambassador to Rome, and Boris Stein, Minister to Helsingfors...
...came to throw a magnificent bridge across the Seine in memory of his father Tsar Alexander III. Today le Pont Alexandre-Trois is still the most magnificent in Paris and across it in his long-snouted Renault limousine M. Barthou has ridden in animated conversation with Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, the roly-poly one time traveling salesman who is now Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...opportunist" TIME meant that sharp Publisher Schuster is alert to every opportunity to score a publishing coup, did not mean he was lacking in principle. But TIME cannot subscribe to Author Durant's concluding maxim: "Of the living, nothing but what is good...
...vast Congress of 500 Soviet poets and prose writers that assembled fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 27) in Moscow's famed Hall of Columns under the guidance of walrus-mustached Maxim Gorky turned their attention last week to Russia's children. A 13-year-old girl known as Alia Kanshin marched into the hall at the head of 13 Siberian moppets under a big red banner proclaiming themselves "THE CIRCLE OF THE PUG-NOSED." The Circle had just completed a cooperative book on child life in Siberia. They demanded more and better books for Soviet children, books about "the struggles...
Five hundred poets and prose writers in 80 Soviet languages and dialects were welcomed to Moscow last week by unromantic Josef Stalin as "engineers of the human soul." Soon walrus-mustached Maxim Gorky opened the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers with a speech recommending study of the Russian classics. The Soviet Press, however, firmly declared with Dictator Stalin that the purpose of the Congress is "to apply scientific methods to the creation of literature...