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...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...
Picture a big, genial bear that walks like a man and is a man. You have pictured Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Last week at the League sessions in Geneva he came, after long probation and tremendous effort, finally into his own. M. Litvinov, as the world press has only lately begun to admit, aspired from the first to be a Kellogg or a Briand: a Peace...
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...
...holds the lion's share of Europe's gold, and as money talks, much may come of this plan. But on its face it looked only a trifle less vague than the "United States of Europe." Abruptly the League was startled by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. In an unheralded speech he proposed a Pact of Economic Non-Aggression between Russia and other States "for the peaceful co-existence of the Soviet and Capitalist systems." Russia, he said, would agree with Capitalist countries on a program of no dumping by anyone. "Let the States represented here...
...Author, Consumptive, gaunt Maxim Gorki (Alicksei Maximovitch Pieshkov) has survived 63 years in spite of his disease, in spite of one attempt to commit suicide. A bystander like his hero, he took no part in the Revolution but is in good odor with the Soviet Government. Plain Russian Communists like him (although he spends nine months a year at his Italian villa) and have bought over 2,000,000 copies of his books in the last four years. Speaking no English, he does not know the phrase "moral turpitude," but on his single visit...