FRANCE: Too Highbrow!

On trial at Paris last week was one Comrade Saveli Litvinov, round-faced Russian of ebullient-humor, who is charged with forging notes to a total value of more than $1,000,000. He claims to be the brother of Soviet Russia's Foreign Minister, moon-faced Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov.

"I can't stand Maxy, you know," confided Saveli to Paris reporters.

"Why not? You mean you don't consider your brother a great statesman?"

"Oh, I don't know about that," said Saveli. "Maybe Maxy is a great statesman. But I can't stand him any more! He has gotten too highbrow."

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