In fact, most undiplomatically, the ambassador was clapped into Brixton jail This was a reprisal for the murder of a British diplomat by Bolsheviks in Moscow.
The Bolsheviks had meanwhile arrested the British agent to Russia, Mr. R. H. Bruce-Lockhart. So a deal was done. Litvinov was swapped for Bruce-Lockhart in 1918, On leaving Brixton jail he paid the only compliment he has ever been known to make to bitterly-hated Czarism. He said to the British Foreign Office official who released him: "The Kiev jail was more comfortable—and easier to escape from His experience abroad, his knowledge of languages, his undeniable ability marked him down as a coming man as soon as he set foot in his native land again.
He became assistant to Tehiteherin then Foreign Commissar, In 1929 he succeeded his chief.
His worldly urbanity won him friends, or at least admirers, in every country. He is a benevolent-looking fellow, stout, with shrewd, apparently kindly, eyes. Actually he is not at all benevolent. He is brilliantly shrewd, with a fine logical mind, He speaks well, makes contacts easily His barbed wit is an unpleasant memory for some of the statesmen who crossed swords with him at Geneva, His Going To Stop Discounting Export Invoices Lisbon, June 20.
Maxim Litvinov's going is like the ead of an epoch. He stood for the post-war League diplomacy of enormous conferences and millions of words.
The Bank of Portugal today announced its decision to discontinue the discounting of invoices on exports to Italy.
This decision will stop practically all Portuguese exports to Italy, and is stated in banking circles to be due to a desire to avoid a further increase in frozen credits not covered by currency.
Italian demands in recent months for olive oil' and other Portuguese produce is stated to have resulted in Portugal's holdings in lire climbing to 80,000,000.—Reuter.
He knew the humbug of the business. But he knew also how to get what he wanted out of such conferences by cunningly steering the speeches into the channels he wanted.
He was one of the inventors of the Geneva back-staircase diplomacy which led foreign statesmen to creep into the side doors of hotels to have whiskies in one another's bedrooms and "fix" things for the morrow.
And he had great triumphs. Among his achievements were the American recognition of Soviet Russia, the Franco-Russian and the Russian-
Czecho-Slovak alliances. But all the elaborate structure he had been in-
Bata Buys Land In Slovakia 3 strumental in building fell down like a pack of cards when Germany, and later Italy, just refused to play according to Litvinov's rules.
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