HONOUR FOR LITVINOV

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 23 September 1936, Page 15

HONOUR FOR LITVINOV

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RUSSIAN TRIBUTES

MOSCOW, July 17. E 'M; Slalin to-day decorated M. Litvinoyy the Soviet Foreign Commissar, | who celebrated his sixtieth'birthday toI With the : Order of Lenin. Viscount Chilstoh, the British Ambassador, and otWiaS diplomatic representafeves sent messages, of congratulation. \ Alt; today's newspapers make a featarV of the anniversary, printing large front-page portraits of M. Litvinot* and;lengthy details about his life. In accordance with the new "family • life 1 * policy some also publish pictures of M*. Litvinov with his wife —formerly Misa"' Tvy Low, of London—son and 1 daughter: He is also credited with vie I i tory at the Dardanelles comerence at aiontreux. Several articles insist on his superior I .' -understanding of the British people. M. Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador in London, writing in the Pravda, recalls how I in 1912 hs and other East European Reds used to climb out on to the roof of a poor little London lions© and listen I to Litvinov. who "knew everything about English habits and customs, and was indeed our guide and interpreter for contemporary Britain." Litvinov then lived at Harrington square, St. Pancras, "the most smokeit blackened district of smoke-blackened London," but "in 1936 Litvinov was welcomed by a salute of 21 guns from Dover Castle and by representatives of the British Government, reporters and m press photographers" when he landed I in England for King Ceorge's funeral'. I "Litvinov was no longer a refugee I pursued by the Tsar's Government, but 9 came to London as Minister for Foreign •Mi Affairs of the first great Socialist Power f 1 in human history, and had a long talk i with the new King and visited Mr. Baldwin."

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