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MAXIM.. LITVINOV INTERVIEWED BY RICHARD C. HOTTELET
Soviet Attitude To The Atomic
I
N that summer- of 1946-as today-few things seemed as im- portant as the atom bomb. The worries of the world centred round three questions:
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2. Does the Kremlin realise. the fearful power of this weapon?
3. Will knowledge and responsibility
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Bomb
This is a report of the most astonlabing interview ever given by a top-ranking Russian diplomat to an American newspaperman.
The diplomat was Maxim Litvinov, former Soviet Foreign Minister and first Ambassador of the U.S.S.I. to the United States The
newspaperman was Richard Hottelei, Moscow ocrrespondent for Columbia Broadcasting System,
The time WILS 1946. Litvínov was being pushed out of power by Stalin. To have published Litvinov's words while le was still alive would probably have meant his execution, Since the death of Litvinov was announced by the Kremlia last January 2. Mr Hottelet has fell free to write the interview and to tell the story behind it.
Soon after the interview, Mr Haltelet prepared a memorandum of it and turned it over to the American State
Department.
This is the second of five articles.
strengthened the US. Govern- ement in its demand for genuine I discussed these ques guarantees tions with Soviet Deputy Much depends on whether the
Minister
really know Foreign
Maxim rulers of Russia Litvinov in his Moscow what atomic power means, There is no doubt that Stalin is fed office on June 18. He gave fantastic misinformation by the me his answers straight blind ce terrified creatures in from the shoulder.
Soviet missions abroad.
He said that Russia would not agree to atomic control, that it did not attach undue Importance to the bomb and that it would not necessarily be afraid of atomic war.
His answer to the first question was provoked by
On the other hand it has been shown that Stalin had a wealth of practical knowledge at his dis- pesni at that time. Yet the in- dications are that Stalin does not tzch as much importance to the
atom bomb as we do,
OUTMODED
my reference to the Baruch TN the course of my conversa Plan. Bernard Baruch had 1 ten with Livingy, he men- presented the UN Atomic teard that there had been a re- Energy Commission with turn in the Soviet Union to the the American proposals for utmeded concept of security in
terms of territory. rigid control of the atom. The plan aimed to make it. impossible for any nation to exploit atomic power for political advantage.
a large extent, it will not be the bomb. This loath to use would be especially true where public opinion has no weight, where the state leadership has been capable of completely con- ditioning the public mind "
'05
Is the Alsatian a guardian killer?
or a
By ROBERT GLENTON
London police court witness box and try.
to get Alsatians destroyed,
Recently an Alsatian, alone in
a house, rolled en a burning rug to put out the names. It died a few hours later:
T night time in the public parks, in lonely streets, in the shadows of buildings, the bright eyes watch.
They are the Alsatian the Aleations of the Rajah of But some years ago In Simla dogs with the pricked cars Athgarh attacked and Ate his and the switching talls, cousin, who went for a walk that the dogs wate trained by the police and the unaware
Joose. Services to trap wrongdoers.
What is the truth about the Rector Prayed
Airation? Is it just another
dog or should it be described as - Years later, a Suffolk rector a wild animal-a "killer"-t prayed in his church for his only to be handled by experts blind wife's Alsatian Bruce. and armed men?
which had been condemnet by For at this moment there are faithful and loving friend."
a magistrate's order several Alsatians contemned
to death by magistrates courta A North Country coroner for cavaging adults, children, denounced. Alsatians as no fit
other dogs, and sheep.
4
Boy Bitten
Police Alsatian Rajah chased burglar o few Hays ago, caught him, and hung on to him until the thief 'shot him.
pets for children; but kidding have been used to rescue Irapped Alsatians so crazed with fear that no adult dare go near them.
Each day more and more of these dogs are being trained to ald the blind.
*
But there have been cases when these guardian animals have suddenly turned round and bitten a person who has brushed against them.
Yet the day before an 11- year-old North Lendon school- was awarded £50 in East and West might lie in the boy difficulty of drawing a line be-damages after an Alsatian dog tween genuine security and had bitten him in the leg. imperialist aggression.
No one who lived in London during the air raids of the last Alsatian war will forget the rescue-dogs-
There are Alsatians in this Dogs like Storm, who rescued country today who served in the 80 burled people, who once ran desert in wartime, who were at three and a half miles in 13 Caen and Arnhem and who are minutes with anair-raid warden's message.
Deputy Minister LKvinov, the last remaining Jew holding high ronk in the Soviet foreign sor- vice, regarded me sadly.
He spoke almost gently, as though to lessen the impact" of his words.
They Served
living today with their wartline masters, guarding their children. Every few months- an 'appeal Seven Kings, is made for more and more of these dogs wanted for their skill, loyalty, and bravery, by police forces and the Services, “
*Hitler," he said, "Hitler But no one who lives in probably fell sincerely that his Spencer
Road, demands were justified, that he forgets what happened to Mr was entitled to lebensraum. George Little, # 67-year-ohi Hitler was probably genuinely bus driver, down that street a convinced that his actions were fortnight ago, preventive and forced on by external circumstances."
FANTASTIC
him
Attack By Two
Was
He'
two attacked by Alsatians. As he fought to pro- tect his threat and face, the
SEVERAL times during the time dogs bit his legs and tore his
I spent in Litvinɔv's office my trousers, At no point did Litvinov as hair stood on end. I wondered
hint that
A police-sergeant had to use moral if the man had gone crazy, or much scruple, or a decent regard for whether this could be some his truncheon to fight them off human life, or fear of world- fantastic frame-up.
and protect himself. wide devastation, would alone
Now, according to keep the Kremin trom using the atom bomb.
For "conservative" Stalin, It
and the cost
who figuring was only a matter of calculating
would come out of the garnıc with the most chips.
figures I took it for granted that his issued by the Kennel Club, the office was fully wired for sound, Alsatian is second in popularity, and that the MGB, the secret
wot blood.”
⇓ dog has
While, in the Northern Terri- tory of Australia, it is illegal to koop an Alsatian an'an pet hecause the "killer" streak is guid to be so near the surface, in, this country ordinary house
sent £200 In smoll holders amounts, recently to pay the casts of an owner who fought for his dog's life in a police court.
Babies Hurt
No dog has won the Dickin Medal, "the animals” V.C..'! more often. No dog is so frequently a hero.
•
But for every such story are
brutally, hysterically, ravaged babies and their parents alike.
dialogue.
The experts deny the popular police, was recording the whole as a pet in this country.
that the rumour But if there was any fear of wild wolf streak in it. "Every roicrophones or frame-up in In the course of our Inter- Litvinov's mind did not show do they say, "has a trace of just as many of dogs who have view. Litvinov's attitude was it. Not even when he almost one of resignation mixed with scared me out of the room by The R.S.P.C.A. my the disgust and relief that he was afrily considering the prospects Alsatian is just like any other not identified with his govern- of revolution and the cou-canine-it is all a matter of in- ment's foreign policy.
sequences of Stalin's death. dividual temperament,
(Coupright, 1852 by United Fer- ture Syndicate, Inc.)"
Tomorrow:
But the full bitterness and cynicism that must have been him came to the surface
in
It
I asked him how it was pos- when I asked him whether sible that the present leaders, might not be true that much of astute and capable men, could the mutual suspicion between cling to the outmoded idea that
a river or a mountain range or * thousand kilometres
ground would provide security.
The sincere spirit in which this plan was presented showed in Mr Baruch's ap- peal to the Atomic Energy thinking and
lines."
Commission to "make “ choice between the quick and the dead." It provided rigid inspections in every country.
for
NO TEETH
I asked him 'specifically whether the USSR. could be expected to go the whole way.
story of a detective in the making and of the part Livinov neplied tensely that played by science in the the USSR was not lely to sub grim exposure of crime.mit to inspection.
Litvinov respanded: "Because they are Conservative in their still follow old
This canservatism Ly well known to anyone who has lived in Russia or has close dealings with the Russians,
Ting information of weapons
LITVINOV DISCUSSES THE FUTURE OF RUSSIA
DEMOCRATIC
BLACK
THE
London, Mar. 18.
S Britain's civil servants
development provided by the A hang up their black
Canadian spies, by Klaus Fuchs and Professor Pontecorve
A
did coats and put away their the
There Bro
people fighting hard to preserve the good name of the breed. There are just many who have been bad- ly bitten, ready to go into the
o
Legislation to ban them has been suggested several times but en each occasion it has been frustrated.
Why? Because no one really truth about the knows the Alsation,
"PURGE" AMONGST COATS OF BRITAIN
By A Correspondent
workable system of will be eyeing their desks And they were quietly in might divulge the source of in-
and control.
In fact
grapes to smooth over Russia's
RESIGNATION
vestigated.
on everyonent
to
"
security check on Britain's. Alm was to ensure, merely, worried about this.
Were
not,
as elsewhere, all kinds of in- formation, economic and ċivil as well as military, could be of value to a potential enenty,
Douglas Hyde,' the former news edlior of the London
bnti-Communist, vociferou who is now revealed in his book
Curtain
.A
during trade countles
#
bid. This was passed on to the Communist trade delegations.
The
have been told of at least civil servants, aro all the possi
..
Communist OT Fascist are judged a bad risk are not not move the Kremlin to press umbrellas this week, they parties they might be dismissed. revealed to them, because this IEVINOV made it plain to me for
formation, The screening pro- Dally.
be too not likely to that the Soviet Union would security
Another feature is that there cess is propaganda portrayed and each other perhaps just accept nothing sharper than false Russian
as uttle more a little more guardedly than wil be, for the first Ume, a severe. toth-batter still, no tooth at all, the atom bomb
than another Western Instru- before. They will be anxious blanket check
atomic energy In the past four years, only from "Two distinct actions are ment of blackmall against the
to see who amongst them the Harwell required by the Baruch Plan," he Soviet Union,
have the "new forms" to station from office boy to chief 57 people have been transferred Communist office worker at the other posts for security Board of Trade passed on to the physicist. said. "One is to subscribe to the
reasons, 21 dismissed. Another Communist newspaper Informa Litvinov made it clear that fill up. For the forms ask
'after tion of British Intentions and prinziple of international control
"Until now, - when A person 28 have been reinstated The nooond is talding the neces this approach was not just questions never before ask-
was removed from his post for having been removed from the prices they were willing to cary steps to relinquish eignty in this field and hctually lack of the atom bomb at that ed of British government security reasons, he was found their jobs,
time, but a basic underestima- } workers. ·
n job in another department, to permit rigid inspection."
But has Britain successfully flon of the bomb's capacity,
and at the same salary. So he
avoided weakness in its purges?
new security check is. They are part of the new suffered no financial loss,
Some civil servants, even, are primarily aimed at forestalling any more possible Fuchs's or civil service announced in that Communists
Nunn Mays. But," ask: some
one middle-grade official, hand- bilities, of less spectacular · Ini-;- put the question to him in this Portament recently, and tempted by having secret docu-
Aling confidential documents re- formation leaks covered?: they represent another cau- ments within their reach, form: "Poison gas Was not
lating to production for the used in World War II because tious move in Britain's de
armed forces, who is known by Illustrated by more than The following day, June 19, both sides tacitly agreed It was mocratie "purge" cautious
guardian, his colleagues to have Com- no official security check cover- 100 authoritative photo- Anciral Gromykoo placed Moscow's too terrible a weapon. How do because before the questions
enemy within is munist convictions,
ing posts which? although hat the you regard the chances of the grapha
of before counter-proposals before
MIJ, the fifth branch
involving the handling of con- matter was discussed with military *Intelligence.. Unites Nations. The basis of this atom bomb not being used in were framed, the whole against the
They The weakest part of the Adential Information; published,
pinay was "intomational control," the event of another war?" "
the civil service on check system seems to be re vulnerable to sabotage, such as 192 pages
but of a different sort. Gromyko
lated to the lower grade office vital communications posts. Litvinov answered slowly, representatives of the civil advise
security, risksy nak suggested an international com-
unions.
workers, the typists and clerics. mission under the direction of breathing heavily as he spoke, servants' trade union
They have matie mistakes. the UN Security Council, in but matter of factly as before.
The principal Innovation of alher words with Russia's vero "That depends entirely on this now check is that those Socialist convictions have been power able to block any read the attitude of the people who concerned only about 14,000 nections. But not often, Inspection. 1 It was take control have atomic bombs. If one will have to supply^"full_de-
Com life and
However, there are brakes on side thinks it can bring about tells of their past Anglyals has always shown quick victory by using them, mudist, or Fasciat associations, the purge system to guard. that, in their proposals everything the temptation will be great. Previously, no one, not even against the dangers of a witch- depends on Soviet Russia. Irving
"Even if both sides are atom acleatina, were asked to do hunt by Mis or anybody else. Ho to its pledged word.
that Aloe that. Its immense area and ply told when they began secret security risk has the right extremely secret" (an official astonished at just how much in: purwo -pro-Ahels 'superiors". do know about worth the mpapower, resources, and dis work that if it were found that to appeat to a special tribunal, classication
indestry safeguard it to they had any connection with The speelde reasons why they cedure) Information? In Britain, theis,
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Many of these, particularly the The answer to any of these temporary typists, are hired points could be "Ah, tit MIG with
apparently little. Gr. no knows." This cannot be con necurity check and sent to a tradicted; For what M15, knows pool where they may work for no one, except a secret seques- almost any department
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Certainly middle-stradas civil
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