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Just one delegate to the World Monetary and Economic Conference was a hero last week to his people. Russia's roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinov. While the Conference proper stewed over stabilization (see p.15), Comrade Litvinov bustled busily around London attending to three major outside jobs. In his thick Jewish English and even thicker French he bargained with statesmen of at least eight nations, closed a thumping deal with Professor Raymond Moley. The professor's wallet seemed to contain last week chiefly U. S. $20 bills. Short of English money, he once or twice was...
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