Word: maximovitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...week where as Japanese Ambassador he has stubbornly defended Japan before the League Council (TIME, Oct. 5 et seq.). Recalled by his father-in-law, tiny Mr. Yoshizawa who incessantly puffs enormous black cigars, took a ticket for Moscow where he will talk Manchuria with Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, then hurry across the trans-Siberian Railway to Manchuria and finally to Japan...
...Fears by the Great Powers of Soviet intervention in Manchuria were considerably calmed last week by eye witness reports and official reassurances issued at Moscow by Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. Hotly he emphasized the pledge of Russia's neutral intentions given two weeks ago (TIME...
Bear-Man. In pre-War England there was a traveling salesman known as "Mr. Harrison." If he was not Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov in disguise a great many people who claim to have known Max then are liars. Like other revolutionists, he kept his secrets to himself. But he was a friend of Lenin, also an exile from Tsarist Russia, and after the revolution Dictator Lenin appointed him first Soviet representative in London...