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Show Litvinoff's Record It might pay the American people to know something about fvLaxim LitvinoSf, recently designated des-ignated Soviet Ambassador to tine United States. From the beginning of the Soviet regime he has advocated collaboration with toe Western democracies and when the Rus-;o-German pact was signed in 1939 ihe weht into retirement. LitvinofJ, we believe, urged a policy in Europe essentially peaceful, even if designed to Counter the growing power of Germany. He was regarded, in Russia, as definitely anti-German. In 1935, when France and Russia signed their treaty, it was largely due to his exertions that it was within the League of Nations framework. From ib'32 to 1938 he made many speeches in support of collective . ecurifcy and during that period, in 1937, he incited Leon Blum, head of the French government, to make joint preparations with Russ.a for toe eventual defense I of Czecho-Slovakia. |