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THE STORY THAT HAD TO BE KEPT SECRET FOR NEARLY SIX YEARS

MAXIM LITVINOV WARNS THE WEST

This is the report of the most astonishing Interview ever given by a top-ranking Russian diplomat to a new- paperman.

The diplomat was Maxim Litvinov (above) farmer Foreign Minister, first Ambassador of the USSR to the was Richard C. United States. The newspaperman Hattelet, Moscow correspondent for the Columbia Broad- casting System.

The time was 1946, Litvinov was being pushed out of power by Stalin. To have published Litvínov's words while he was alive, probably would have meant his execu- tion. When Litvinov's death was announced on January 2. 1952, by the Kramlin, Mr Hottelet felt free to write the interview and to tell the story behind it.

Shortly after the interview, Mr Hottelet prepared a confidential memorandum of it and gave it to the American State Department.

This is the first of five instalments,

The World Health Organisation reports on

a social problem that is still increasing ..

THE

ALCOHOLICS

By a Doctor

ADDICTION to alcohol ja head, but may be physically

"We Russians can't be trusted," said the

tooked at the fire but he took no notice.

I asked him what he thought of the international situation. 1 was prepared for the Usual polite evasion in the direction

Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister to the newsman of the latest Pravda editorial.

0

By RICHARD C. HOTTELET

for the answer.

2

But his answer was direet and deliberata, given with the air of a man who has some- get thing very important to oft his mind;

"The outleok," he said, "is bad. It seems as though the differences between East and West have gone too far to be blaze burning NE afternoon In important for a correspondent replace, with

iconciled,"

gulped. He continued: June 1946 Maxim in Moscow to do than to icok brightly.

Litvinov's office was an oblong, "There once seemed a chance Litvinov, then De.

From Russian officials had good-sized living room. The that the two worlds would be puty Foreign Minit known in Berlin and who were door was not quite in the middle. allowed to exist side by side, On the cpposite elde was the but that is obviously no longer ter of the USSR, received lown in Moscow I hoped to On

framed in an elaborate the case. There has been a re- me in his office in Moscow to get at least a frank statement replebaronial enough for a turn in Russla to the outmoded

of Soviet policy. Instead I got

I got moulding, warn the Western world the brush off, plain and simple. top official. To the left stood a concept of security in terms of that the Kremlin cannot be Towards the middle of June, long, dark wooden table with territory-the more you've got trusted and cannot be ap- when I had just about resigned heavy carving, much more of an the safer you are."

I asked why this should be myself to getting my news out early Hollywood dining room pensed.

of Pravda, the shrewd CBS place then a cenference table. so. Had the victoricus secretary suggested we try to get It was surrounded by high time alliance not pointed

collective security? hold of Litvinov.

backed chairs, alan carved, with way to The attempt seemed promising. their legs ending in a claw and Litvinov had himself for many years urged such a policy. suspicious

Was there Instead

gruff,

no hope that the

+

ball.

the

we

about?

war- the

It was & summer of political struggle between East and West. The war- time alliance was bein feving at the other end of the At the other end of the room United Nations would bring it torn to shreds in Foreign wire, a pelite secretary said she were windows,

with Ministers' meetings, and in would consult the Deputy Litvinov's desk at right. angles

CONFLICT speeches and statements Foreign Minister, and call back.., to one. As I went in, Litvinov Next day she called back to was standing half bent over the from various capitals.

AL that time

many well say that Mr Litvinov could see desk. He seemed to be sorting TVINOV shrugged,

papers, and f menning observers thought that me the following week.

though he had not expected me he replied, "the root cause. 18 it might all be no more than a BOILING HOT at that moment, although I had the ideological conception pre-

just been announced.

was almost as

"As far as I am concerned,"

ever

iragle misunderstanding. They the prepared to give were

He turned

me vailing here that coulet be- towards benent Kremlin the

the of

tween the Communist and capi- BUT when the day came I ex-

quickly, then drew himself

tolist worlds is inevitable. doubt and regard it as the vic-pected something to go wrong straight and came across the

"If there

to be tin. of inborn suspicion which up to the minute I walked to carpet holding out his hand.

basis of co-operation And 1 ex- the West was duty bound to Litvinov's

He led me to the big table, be that of agreement understand and remove. Lit pected to heur nothing much seated me at one end and took the great powers," he went on. vinov's warning seemed to be once I was there.. addressed to them,

POINT BLANK

put the question to point blank:

never

uffice.

"Suppose the West were sud- a woollen suit as I walked of strength and determination. be out s

a physical disease and soft and "spineless" and should be treated as such. show other signs of under-denly to give in and This is the conclusion of a functioning of the adrenal Moscow's demands committee of experts on glands.. mental health who have been studying alcoholism

•

with His

vious

it

must

ameng

Denmark

#

the chair to my right, with

"Obviously Haiti or It was a boiling hot day. I his back towards the fireplace. could not threaten world peace. did record the exact day He looked like his pletures As for the United Nations, it is In my nutes for fear the secret round: florid face, thin while not unreasonable for

Russia police might leap to the "right" hair combed vaguely back, rim- him conclusion.

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perspired freely less glasses and the appearance to be susplelous of any forum in which would constantly In the short distance from the The light summer sult and The thought leaped into my grant all Metropole Hotel to the Foreign white perforated shoes he wore mind that the interview might regarding omes. It was so hot that my were obviously a relic of his Trieste, the Italian colonies, heels bent donta in the soft days as Soviet Ambassador have been planned to float

trial balloon, some new Russian Washington. the Danube River and the rest. asphalt as I crossed the street.

the

proposal in the diplomatic war. The flunkey in livery at the According to the World Would that lead to good will

So far Litvinov had not said a THICK ACCENT and

present main entrance knew 1 an easing of the

was com-

word about our talk being off at the request of the World Health Organisation report tension?"

the ob- ing and look me up in the old-

the record. I popped the o Litvinov replied slowly and fashioned cage

Hift.. The

spoke English H

"next"question," Health Organisation, and the passage from ordinary

3. D thick accent.

Recalling that he was stiil who have just produced a social drinking to addiction deliberately, as though he were secretary in Litvinov's bare outer

volca Was low and on a summer dress, is marked

certain patiently making a point which office had by

rather Deputy Foreign Minister and ot long and comprehensive re-

should have been obvious.

rough. He breathed nol-

his government's disposal for definite milestones, from

But "It would lead," he said, "o and her window was open.

the sily as when she opened

he had though port about it.

new ideas and approaches, I' door into her chest cold or asthma. I awap- the first "black-out" to the the West being faced,

padded double boss's room the first thing I saw ped him an American cigarette asked: "How, would you say. Alcoholism seems to be final degradation of absolute more or less short time,

the next series of demands."

could this Russian papyrossa.

bridged?" the increase in many dependence on the morning

It was an astonishing state- on the opposite side was a large for parts of the world. It was drink and more or lessment, But it was not the only stated recently in the sustained drunkenness staggering judgment which the French Chamber of Depu- throughout the conscious ter expressed in the course of ties that one quarter of all hours. The inevitable conse-our long conversation. the cases under treatment in quences will be delirium [ inov also discussed Rus-

Litvinov

of the .atcm French psychiatric hospitals tremens and a fatal illness, sla's estimate

can be bomb, the possibility of inner were of alcoholic origin. In unless the addict

pressure or revolution the State of New York, persuaded to accept treating the course of Soviet policy, and the possible foreign politi- according to the New York ment.

eal consequences of Stalin's are 700,000 Times, there

death. chronic alcoholics-one man

BRUSH OFF out of every 12 in the popu- lution.

01

1

27-LETTER DRUG

after a with

Soviet Deputy Foreign Qinis-

cow.

chang-

The success of medical treat-THE circumstances and back- ground of the interview were What is alcoholic? ment used to depend greatly on unusual. In the Spring of 1946 Columbia Broadcasting Here is the definition given the patient's strength of mind. the

Mos by the World Health Or. It still does, but to a less extent, System ussigned me to

for within the last two or threë ganisation:

My wife and I went by way years doctors have been finding of Paris, where the Foreign wrangled, and a new Danish drug exceedingly Ministers

grent Its chemical name is Copenhagen, where the the air raid shelter in

Town It Tetraethylthiuramdisulphide.

Hall square was still intact. called

In Leningrad we saw women drilling with fixed bayonets to the commands of an army offl- cer.

WHAT THEY ARE helpful.

is also

Disulfiram

Dr.

of

"Alcoholics are those ex- cessive drinkers whose de- Antabuse.

If a patient taking this drug pendence upon alcohol has attained such a degree that drinks even a small quantity of By the time we got to Mos- cow almost everything we had it shows a noticeable mental alcohola, tablespoonful

seen raised the question in our disturbance or an inter whisky, for instance-a reaction

minds-why should this peace, ference with their bodily takes place Inside the body won at such cost less than

distressing year ago, now be so uncertaint. and mental health, their which causes most

including nausea, There appeared to be noth- inter-personal relations and symptoms,

violent Aushing ing more Interesting or their smooth social and eco- palpitations, a

of the face, and a feeling of nomic functioning; or show impending physical collapse. the prodromal signs of such developments. They there- fore require treatment."

Obviously a drug like this con be dangerous, but when rightly used it nets as a powerful rein- forcement to the patient's own

mental efforts to overcome his addiction

making" him

by

You will observe that heavy drinker is not neces- sarily an alcoholic. 1. am frightened of the consequences nware of one case, which or

the patient enhol. Of course, the

vividly illustrates'

co-operation is neces- Eary, for he has to take the drug difference-a man who died for long periods, and the treat-

at the age of 93 having ment must be backed up by drunk a quart of Scotch skilled psychotherapy whisky every day for sixty underlying neurosis,

years

while successfully

races are more susceptible to alcoholism than others. The Celtic and Scandinavian peoples have the

Jews record, the Chinese the best.

more

About The

Author

DICHARD C.. (Dick) Hotlelet has been a foreign corres- Rondent for fourteen years.

Born in Brooklyn thirty-five years ago, he made his first trip abroad in 1997 when he did post-graduate work in psychology at the University of Berlin. A year later he Joined the United Fress bureau in Berlin, Ito helped cover the stories that led to World War II-Crech crisis, Munich pact.

He was with the German troops that marched into Poland in 1930, went with the German Army through Bel- glum and Northern France to the English channel and Dan- kirk. Teo outspoken in his opposition to the Nazis, Hot- ielet was arrested In 1941 on a trumped up charge of es- plonage. After four months solitary confinement he was exchanged for two Nazi newsmen held by the U.S. Depart- ment of Justice.

After Pearl Harbour he joined the American Office of War Information to help conduct paychologiɑni · warfare gainst the German Army and home front. His work took him to the Mediterranean theatre and Italian battlefields.

In January 1944, Holtelet joined the Columbia Broad- casting System radio news staff in London. He flew with the air force before the invasion, was in a Ninth Air Force bomber that attacked Utah Beach on D-Day.

He covered some of the bloodiest fighting to the Huert. ten forest, save the first report of the German counter- offensive which grew out of tie Battle of the Bulgs... · Ho

with the troope

the that made

first contact will the Russians on the Elbo, He was Moscow correspon- dent for CBS from May until December 1946 when Stalin withdrew broadcasting facilities. He conducted his own news show in the United Slates from 1947- until his return to Berlin in 1950. He is now located in Bonn, Germany.

Hotties is married and the father of two children

Royal Family's favourite catches on in 'pet stakes'

E

Research

present chasm

ba

The answer was not what I hed expected, He breathed heavily and coked squarely at

me.

NO TRICK

TT was a tired, resigned old man who replied: "I have some ideas, but I won't give them until they call on me." (They obviously referred to the

"And In the Kremlin). will

men.

they

certainly call on me."

not

I tried to Indicate üs do- Heatcly as I could that, he had been on the shelf

before once and brought out again when Stalin

wanted good relations with the West. Was, he sure that would not happen again?

Litvinov shook his head. "No," he

said,

observer

positive. I'm just an

And I'm glod to be out of It"

The

rest of this stranige in- terview awakened the impres sion

which Was later conarmed. that it was ino trick of elaborate deception, but that it

was meant'es Litvinoy'a politi-

cal teglament to the, Western world.

(Copyright, 1952, by United Frature Syndicate, Inc.).

Tomorrow: LITVINOV DISCUSSES THE A-BOMB.

SCH ATPH

The scientists isolated a drug called micrococeln, which was death to TB germs and did not baim humun teses. With great

hospital

trials,

difficulty, chough was produced

for

tho Medical. the time the late King bought a for London

Family's corgi for his daughters In 1833. Council. of the THE Royal

Now, as nursary pet for her Pamela has a good chance, of favourite dog, the own chlidren, the Queen has 4 being remembered in that of Welsh corgi, looks like be- core pup. Sugar, daughter of

They falted because the drug effective against tuberculosis,

could not get to grips with the The Medical Research germs in the body. When in managing a business. Some ALL OR NOTHING coming the average family's the reigning Royal Hotend the first to find a drug really

favourite too, according to deg Susan.

The appealing figures issued by the Kennel up such tremendous numbers in find a

cocker bulit

Council has started a drive to Jected it stayed put under the-

"super-penicillin" cap- skin instead of being transport- Another promising line of Club today..

of postwar popularity able of killing TB.germs. ¤ Burgo

ed into the bloodstream. that is still top dog, though treatment, especially for acute

Penicillin was discovered in alcoholism (including delirium Corgis have moved up to the numbers are falling fast. tremens), is to stimulate the fourth place in the annual Last year gute of 12,071 now mould which blew into Bir Disappointment No. 2 came patient's adrenal glands by in-

popularity poll of pedigree cocker pups registered with the Alexander Fleming's laboratory with

they called through a window. So a team jections of cortisone or soreno puns, displacing the wire Kennel Club was the lowest for of acleatists at Clevedon, led by actitryin. This idilled TD germs Jated drug ACTH (adreno- corticotrophic hormone). This is haired fox terrier, which caht years.

Dachshunds End Scotties are able, 38-year-old Brendan Kelly, and could be injected properly,

but it proved tog poisonous, rational In view of the evidence had been among the first losing their popularity because

patiently examining

BoDres of

Now the scientists are testing that adrenal function may be four for more than 30 years. the coral competes with them in her moulds,

the "spawn" of· sepres” of tend=" constitutionally dófectivo in The only breeds in front of size and appeal,

The moulds are sent in from stools. They are even trying a ploces ranging from. Epping mould found alcoholics

living in the Forcat to the Malayan Jungle stomach of a Malayan <white Pamela is the first to study entered

worst

and

BALD MEN? NO

The difference in suscepti bility may be a matter of glands, of metabolism (the

► J

the low-elung, cogiare

persuade.

the addict to cocker spaniel, Alsatian, treatment, may be dim-leading in that order.

All three ore falling off internal chemical mechanism cult to keep him cured is very popular appeal of the body), or of both. much more so, for an addiet. Baldness, for instance, in cannot by the nature of his dicsense be a moderato drinker.

the

and

in

..

FAME BECKONS

an

in

op-

Is

drug

IN A grey stone house

of the quint coastal town

then

"Thoy might, 5 be out of luck Clevedon, Somerset, I found an

She grews them in bottles to unknowngirl who has been

se if they are active, ugainst for years. Or they might suc- Шуст

ceed tomorrow. Whichever way. exceptional Corals have beon Queen portunity of becoming a famous

aggit. goon-young" Pamela: Bard han uncommon in alcohol 12 he does not stop, drinking Elizabeth's favourite since scientist,

Twice in the last few months one of the most exciting and She is 20-year-old Famels hopes have run high in the important jobs in Britain. addlets, who usually have a completely he will certainly childhood. The first leap in the

-(London: Express Beruice) good growth of hair on the drink to excess before long breed's popularity dates from Boyd, a parteriologia working Clevedon laboratory.