Word: tchitcherin
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...train puffed out. M. Rosengolz and staff proceeded to Berlin where they were to confer with Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, now sojourning "for his health" in the western political cockpit...
...Whom are you watching for in Russia? Tchitcherin? He is broken and has failed. Litvinov's signature you cannot take. Stalin's signature you cannot. Trotsky's certainly you cannot...
With this threat blazoned, the British note went on to asperse individually and by name five officials of the Soviet Government. Example: Georg Tchitcherin, Soviet Foreign Minister, was described as possessed of the "delusion . . . [and] obsession, which is as illogical as ill-founded . . . that Great Britain is continually plotting against the Union of Socialist Soveit Republics...
Further compliments to M. Tchitcherin included reference to his "nervous mind," his "preference for bad over good sources of information," and his "malevolent bias which makes pure invention the basis or support of his policy...
Soviet Reply. Since Soviet Foreign Minister Tchitcherin is receiving treatment at a German spa, it was Acting Foreign Minister Litvinov who replied to Britain...