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...President talked to Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, arrived just before the attack. Then he relaxed on his office sofa, slept soundly for an hour. When he arose he checked reports again (still piled with bad news), announced that he would speak to the nation the next night, and began dictating his speech...
...years he has spent as Ambassador to Russia was his 14-day trip back to Washington. In a howling blizzard he had flown from Kuibyshev, Russia's auxiliary capital, to Teheran in Iran. At one time his party, which included newly appointed Ambassador to the U.S. Maxim Litvinoff, was reported lost. In Teheran, Litvinoff was left behind, while Steinhardt flew on to Cairo because he had broken a tooth, and there was no good dentist short of Egypt...
Muddling Britons last week managed a neat insult to their ally Soviet Russia. On his way to Washington, Russia's newly appointed Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff flew into Teheran, tried to fly on to Cairo in a British Overseas Airways plane. But chubby Ambassador Litvinoff was stopped at the steps to the plane with the information: "All seats already have been taken...
Students are needed, it was explained as assistants in the headquarters of the Boston chapter and as ushers at the Boston rally planned for December 14. At that time former Ambassador Joseph E. Davies; the Russian ambassador, Maxim Litvinov; and probably the present U. S. Ambassador to Russia, Laurance J. Steinhardt will lead a mass meeting at the Boston Arena...
...popular figure than Ambassador Constantine Oumansky talk bourgeois turkey to the men at the arsenal. The probability of a long war demanded that he be a shrewd enough man to retain his popularity without sacrificing his ends. And so, with mutual felicitations as to God, the Hammer & the Sickle, Maxim Litvinoff, whose name at birth was Max Wallach, set out for Washington...