Fiction Or Fabulous Fact?

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    • Subject Terms:
      NOTES for a Journal (Book); LITVINOV, M. M. (Maksim Maksimovich), 1876-1951; INTERNATIONAL relations
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED StatesReport Available; SOVIET Union
    • Abstract:
      In this article, the author critically examines the book "Notes for a Journal," by Maxim Litvinov. The author says that if the late Litvinov's "Notes for a Journal" is authentic, then it is perhaps the most sensational and significant document to emerge from behind the iron curtain in the whole thirty-eight years of the existence of the Soviet Union. The frankness, independence of judgment, and something of Litvinov's point of view on Soviet policy as revealed in the journal find support in interviews which he gave to the United States' former Moscow, Soviet Union ambassador, Walter Bedell Smith, and to Richard Hottelet, an American correspondent in Moscow, Soviet Union, in 1946.