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...constructed a network of treaties between Russia and 14 countries. He negotiated with Roosevelt for U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union in 1933. He got Russia a seat in the League of Nations. There, in passionate, blunt speeches, delivered in an English that was both Cockney and Slavic in accent, he became the apostle of disarmament, of collective security, and of opposition to the Nazis. "Peace is indivisible" was his famous phrase. He was personally liked and respected-a far warmer person than the cunning Vishinsky or the robot Gromyko -but only the gullible believed that there was a Litvinoff...
Sixteen seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa last night. They are Hugh Amory, of Dover and Kirkland, English; Richard J. Barnet 1L, of Brookline and Eliot, Slavic languages; Leo Bersani, of Katonah, N.Y. and Leverett, Romance languages; Donald L. Blackmer, of Andover and Lowell. History and Literature; Gaynor F. Bradish, of Schenectady, N.Y. and Dunster, English; and Melvin W. Brown, of Conotton. Ohio and Lowell, Chemistry...
...most popular songs on the Rocky Mountain air for the past fortnight has been a jingly little piece that Disk Jockey Ronnie McCoy of Denver's KFEL calls Tout Contraire. It sounds something like a Slavic folk tune sung by a crooner with the hiccups. McCoy describes it as a "new foreign import." Listeners, trying to identify it, have variously guessed it to be French, German, Russian...
This was too wonderful for Pravda to ignore. Attracted by the propaganda value of the President's words, Pravda ran a Madison Fourth of July story too. With a gloomy air of Slavic triumph, it implied that the whole thing proved that the U.S. -just as it had been predicting-is cooked. "What," it asked, "is left of the notorious American democracy after 175 years...
...glad to be back in the thick of it again? The answer was an epic shrug and a Slavic expostulation as follows...