With the ending of advance formal censorship of news in Moscow as the first act of the new Foreign Commissar [Page 16], it was revealed that the retirement of Maxim Litvinoff marked a swing by Russia from her collective-security policy.

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Raymond Arthur Gosling was an English broadcaster, journalist, author, and gay rights activist.

Headlines from May 5, 1939

Poland to Reject Demands Today, But Will Leave Door Open to Reich; Foreign Minister Will Reply in Parliament to Call for Return of Danzig to Germany and for a Road Across Pomorze

CHAMBER DEMANDS CONGRESS REPEAL CURBS ON BUSINESS; Wage-Hour Law Needs to Go, Labor Act Must Be Changed, Convention Resolves ECONOMY IS HELD VITAL Senator Harrison Sees Some Relief, but Warns of Local Appeals for Spending

Paralysis of the Coal Industry In Bituminous Fields Imminent; 50,000 More Miners Are Scheduled to Join Stoppage Today and Like Number Tomorrow as Conferees Fail to End Deadlock

Article 1 -- No Title; Light on Litvinoff Ouster

RUSSIA SWITCHES HER POLICY; DROPS COLLECTIVE SECURITY; FOREIGN CAPITALS PUZZLED; REICH TIE UNLIKELY

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