Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-25
L|TV|NOFF Dimes
WITH CAPITALISTS
Good Wishes of Captains of
Finance Ring in His Ears
as He Sails.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, November 25.-Max.m
Iitvinof, Soviet Russia's direct action
diplomat, took passage home to-day, MS
mission of Russian United States recog-
milton accomplished, and the good
wishes and congratulations of American
capitalists ringing in his p-o!e:arian
ears.
He sat last night at a banquet table
in the grand ball room Of the Waldorf
Astoria, vice president Of the Chase
National Bank on his left and proml-
nent industrialists and bankers nearby.
and spoke his farewell
The establishment of diplomatic rela-
tons between the United States and
the Union OF Soviet Republics he said.
was move calculated to weigh the
scales in favor of peace"
Nations Prepare.
He said preparations for new wars
are going on openly in some parts OF
Il world, and he reiterated his previous
statement that the only practical and
effective disarmament is complete dis
armament" This, he said. Russia will
continue tourge at every opportunity.
Not only has the race for arma-
ments been renewed and intensified,
but, what may be far more serious, in
certain cases open propaganda of mill
taristic ideas is being carried on, the
growing generation is being trained in
the idea of glorification for war :.
rs it then surprising when such
moods exist in certain countries that
ri ic Irc H.
ing its last? I may go even further
and assert that the Geneva Confer
ence is a corpse which no efforts can
bring back to life, and if no death
certificate has been issued, that is only
because the doctors are afraid to listen
to the heart that has ceased to beat.
Swap Propaganda.
Ltvinoff reviewed his discussions with
President Roosevelt, saying:
They were throughout of the most
pleasant nature; so pleasant. indeed,
that we both seemed to be in no
hurry to finish them. I believe that
we both, feeling the approach Of our
mutual pledges. tried to avail ourselves
Of the short period of freedom left
to us to make some propaganda be-
tween US.
The President submitted me to a
kind of religious propaganda. and I in
my turn tried to persuade him Of the
soundness of certain principles ex-
pressed in the will of a famous Amer
lean, Stephen Girard, who thought it
best to exclude all ecclesiastical activ-
tiles from the college which he founded
in Philadelphia.
although we hardly succeeded in
convincing one another. I fully enjoyed
the Presidents way of discussing things
and I still feel myself under the spell
OF his charm. Not for a moment had
! any doubts as to the results of our
discussions"
Pays Tribute to Borah.
Litvinoff paid tribute to Senator
Borah whose work for rapprochment
and peace he said. will remain in the
memory Of the people of my country"
He also lauded the work Of Col. Hugh
Cooper, engineer, and of Col. Raymond
Robbins, whom he termed probably
the Oldest friend Of the Soviet Union
in America"
NJ. Litvinoff. who lives humbly over
a Moscow garage while sitting in the
councils of Stain, Kalinin and other
Soviet leaders as peoples commissar Of
foreign affairs. has been in America
Eince November Z.