Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full circle. Franklin Roosevelt had squinted up his eyes, looked all the way across at darkest Russia, and had seen a church; Joseph Stalin squinted back and saw a picket line. In response to this recognition, the Soviet Foreign Commissariat appointed as Ambassador to the U.S. none other than Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, the bourgeois Communist, torchbearer for disarmament, handmaiden of collective security...
...circle began in the '20s. Maxim Litvinoff, who had married a plump, middle-class Englishwoman, set out to end the isolation which the Bolshevist Revolution had imposed on Russia. He delighted and confounded Englishmen with his bluntness, his cunning, his tenacity. At the Disarmament Conference in 1927 he surprised everyone by demanding, of all things, disarmament. "Propaganda," the delegates muttered. "It is propaganda," agreed Litvinoff. "Propaganda for peace." His pet idea was security for Russia through nonaggression. He gave and got promises to and from most of Russia's neighbors not to aggress...
LONDON--The British Ministry of Information announced tonight that a plane carrying Maxim Litvinov, Russian Ambassador to the United States, and Laurence Steinhardt, U. S. Ambassador to Russia, landed yesterday at the Caucasion port of Baku on the Caspian...
...Orthodox Church and his clergy may well rejoice if President Roosevelt can procure more religious freedom in Russia. The number of churches in Russia has declined nearly 90% since the Revolution. In 1917 the country had 70,000, plus several thousand synagogues. In 1933, when Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff went to Washington to arrange for U.S. recognition of Russia, he said there were 40,000. Last August, Russia announced that it had 8,338 churches, mosques and synagogues for its 192,695,710 people...
...sentence was written by a Russian whom the British like and can understand, Maxim Litvinoff. As Foreign Commissar before the war, he was a protagonist of collective security-simultaneous moves to keep the peace. Now, as unofficial liaison man, he pleaded for simultaneous moves...