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Russian Bolsheviki are peeved with Maxim Gorky, famed Russian author, who now lives in Berlin. Once Gorky opposed the Bolsheviki; then he admired them, and became one himself. Later he got disgusted, and by a trick managed to leave Russia. Biased Bolsheviki think he is a gawk; hence the expression, "Gawky Gorky." Of course, Maxim Gorky is neither awkward nor stupid, as War Lord Leon Trotsky pointed out in an inflammable speech...
...State Department in Washington, inclining toward the Latin maxim: Ira furor brevis est, discounted from the first the significance of the incident, feeling certain that it was but the act of an irresponsible...
Hiram Percy Maxim, famed inventor Sc.D...
...question, London is the only place in the world where Russia can obtain the large credits requisite to her reconstruction. The situation was therefore one of extreme seriousness for the Bolsheviki and it was probably because of the gravity of the present stage of negotiations that Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, scurried from Moscow across the face of Europe to the British Metropolis. The Times, displaying an attitude entirely in keeping with that of the greater part of the British press, printed a letter from one Athelstan Riley, Seigneur of Trinity, Jersey, in which lofty scorn is apparent...
...Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs, said: "Everything tends to show that the police acted on instructions from the central authorities . . . the action of the German police was audacious and insolent...