Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Edward's abdication, although not unexpected, comes as a blow to a sympathetic world, which had hoped that some other solution to the problem could have been found. The days when the divine right of kings was an unquestioned maxim have passed, but it is unfortunate that the stage has been reached when a monarch's private life is subject to regulation by a Cabinet of Ministers...
...Council of the Son of Heaven were furious at Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita for his handling of the new Treaty. It had been negotiated with great secrecy for some 18 months, and yet it leaked out of the Japanese Foreign Office just a few days before Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was to have signed a Russo-Japanese fishing treaty highly favorable to Japan (TIME, Nov. 30). Of course Comrade Litvinoff refused to sign this treaty when he heard about the anti-Communist pact, and last week members of the Japanese Privy Council, too angry to be discreet, blabbed...
...pact against the Moscow Comintern, Soviet statesmen suddenly boiled over with an indignation they could scarcely have felt had they believed their own Communist propaganda* all these years. Instead of facing a great league of enemies, Russia faced only a pact of two or three-yet Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff lost his temper completely in Moscow last week and abandoned those niceties of diplomatic procedure which ordinarily he likes to observe...
Before recognizing the Soviet Union, church-going Franklin Delano Roosevelt inserted, as a condition of his deal with roly-poly Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, a clause insuring, so the President believed, that adequate church-going facilities for U. S. citizens in Russia would be preserved (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Comrade Litvinoff, having secured Soviet recognition, went home to Moscow via Rome. When he was asked by the Eternal City's Catholic journalists whether the church clause was going to hold water he replied with his characteristic wink & shrug. Last week in Moscow, sudden and final violation of what...
...danger of James Fenimore Cooper's works as cinema material is that, without his sombre prose (admired by Maxim Gorki and imitated by Joseph Conrad) they generally boil down into an antique kind of penny-dreadful. Scenarists Philip Dunne, John Balderston, Paul Perez, and Daniel Moore worked in shifts for more than a year to keep this from happening to The Lasf of the Mohicans. Net result is an intelligent and exciting version of a story, which, properly loaded with physical action, keeps the imprint of literature...