After the Cabinet dinner at the White House last week President and Mrs. Roosevelt led their guests from the State dining-room to the Blue Room where 250 other guests had gathered for the first big formal function of the new Administration (see p. 7). All official Washington was there, shaking hands, expanding under Mrs. Roosevelt's informal hospitality. Fat little Maxim Litvinoff grinned his toothless grin oftener than usual. He was going upstairs with the President afterward to receive the papers which would formally seal the recognition of Soviet Russia.
But before Litvinoff...
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