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Tempting, newsworthy is a book just promised to U. S. readers by smart Ray Long who used to edit Cosmopolitan. In London last week Publisher Long said that he actually possessed a signed contract binding Josef Stalin and Maxim Gorky jointly to write a book...
Moreover, he revised copybook maxims for his own purposes to: "Never do today what by any means you can put off until tomorrow, and never do yourself what you can get anyone else to do half as well as you can." But the Scripps brain did not idle with the Scripps body. He had another, a compensatory maxim which proved a true success formula: "Be ready with the right decision when the deciding time comes...
Things had become a trifle grim when the Conference voted down (52 to 2) a proposal for total disarmament of all nations, made by Russia. There was a bad taste in everyone's mouth, left by the studied irony of Russia's Maxim Litvinov when he said: "I must apologize for suggesting once again that there be total disarmament, but where should this proposal be made if not to this disarmament conference...
Significance? Not since the Soviet Foreign Minister, Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, threw at Geneva his first Peace Bomb* and his Second? had there been so profound a sensation among professional Peace workers. Instantly the French Plan, like the Russian Plan, was damned and doomed?though, of course, everyone had to be infinitely more polite to M. Tardieu than they had been to Comrade Litvinov. The German delegation, frankly skeptical, protested that this was a disarmament conference, and where was there any Disarmament in M. Tardieu's words? They called the French security plan "a beautiful fable lacking a moral." With fine...
Died. Sir Sidney Low, 76, famed British historian, father-in-law of Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs; ? of heart failure caused by asthma; in London...