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...member of the family of the great Prince Potemkin, adviser to and lover of Catherine the Great, in Tsarist days Vice Commissar Potemkin was a professor of mathematics, later went into the diplomatic service. As Ambassador to Italy he became known for his knowledge of Roman antiquities and in France he helped negotiate the French-Soviet mutual aid pact. He is tall, distinguished in appearance, a good linguist. Colonel Beck welcomed the Vice Commissar, and Comrade Potemkin, according to the Warsaw press, picked up from Colonel Beck enlightening details on a deal which Herr Hitler had tried to make some...
Aristocrat's Assistant. Maxim Maxi-movich Litvinoff cut his diplomatic eyeteeth in the service of the great Georgy Chicherin, aristocratic, Tolstoyan figure who grew up to be a Tsarist diplomat and later renounced his inheritance to become a hunted revolutionary. Chicherin-with Litvinoff as his Vice-Commissar-struggled in the early 1920s to break through the cordon sanitaire which French President Raymond Poincaré had tried to weld around hated Red Russia. The Soviet Union was not even permitted a seat in the spectators' gallery at the Versailles Peace Conference. Many a country refused to recognize...
...military castes, police functionaries, armies of officeholders, diplomats, the props and supports of the ruling dynasties. Replacing them came, along with the new States, new political organizations employing new methods to realize new social theories. In Russia a brilliant group of social theorists under Lenin struggled with rival theoricians, Tsarist generals, Allied intervention, for control of the former Russian Empire, but everywhere social experimentation-good or bad, radical or reactionary-was in the air. It was administered by politicians of a new type-professors like Masaryk, artists like Paderewski, literary figures like Kurt Eisner or D'Annunzio, trade unionists...
Main Berlin White Russian plotter is handsome old General Pavlo Skoropadsky, onetime Tsarist general, for six months Hetman (head man) of the short-lived Republic of the Ukraine, formed in early 1918 by the German Imperial Government. Another White Russian espionage centre is Prague, where White Russian Cossack General P. C. Popov operates. He has recently visited Belgrade, Budapest and Sofia, rounding up old "patriots" for service in the coming Ukrainian campaign. Significant it is that many White Russians of known anti-Communist leanings have found good "jobs" in "poor" Ruthenia...
Supported by dossiers gathered by his extra-legal White Russian secret service, General Denikin, who bears a strong resemblance to England's late King George V, charged that in addition to General Turkul, two other Tsarist officers, Generals Biskupsky and Solonevich, had gone into the pay of the Nazis...