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Show MAXIM LITVINOFF WILL ACT AS ENVOY TO GREAT BRITAIN LONDON, Jan. 4. Maxim Liltvlnoff, who has been appointed Bolsheviki ambassador am-bassador to Great Britain, and who said yesterday that he probably would return to Petrograd, has decided to remain in London pending the receipt of his instructions. instruc-tions. His photograph is printed prominently promi-nently in the newspapers. It shows the highly intelligent face of a well-born and educated man. He Is described as beipg broad-minded, and It Is safd that he Is attached to English institutions and England, En-gland, where he has lived for a decade. M. Litvinof f's wife is an English woman, wo-man, and he is an old friend and associate asso-ciate of Lenine. He is declared to be a whole-hearted supporter of the Bolsheviki, Bolshe-viki, with, whom he apparently is in close touch. The Daily Mall quotes him as saying say-ing that until a courier brings him his formal appointment he cannot say whether he will accept the ambassadorship, ambassador-ship, but in a long interview In the Daily Chronicle he speaks as if he is resolved to take it. "My task as ambassador," he says, "will be to disseminate the truth about Russia and to dissipate misunderstanding, misunderstand-ing, and misinterpretation of the motives, character and purpose of the workmen's and soldiers' government. It is grossly mischievous to represent the Bolsheviki as pro-German, antially or as mere pacifists. paci-fists. They reajize as clearly as anyone that kalserism and junkerdom are the greatest obstacles to the self-emancipation of the International proletariat, but have discovered that Prussia is not the only soil for the congenial growth of noxious plants. They oppose replacing Prussian militarism by Russian, French or English militarism." M. Litvinoff declared his emphatic belief be-lief that, by the present negotiations and propaganda among the German soldiers !n the east, Trotzky and lenine are contributing con-tributing to the downfall of kalserism more effectually than the allies' fighting in the west. He concludes: "I am sanguine enough to Imagine that the Russian and German armies on the eastern front some day will march together to-gether against the common foe of the world's proletariat in Germany Itself and perhaps in other countries, too." |