Tukhachevsky assured him, the Foreign Trade Commissar said, that the army leaders were all reliable, and Gamarnik, before his suicide, added that the O.G.P.U. would be paralyzed on the appointed day by General Gorbachev, then commander of the Moscow garrison.
According to the evidence of A. P. Rosenholtz, Foreign Trade Commissar, Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and seven other generals executed last June had planned to take over the Kremlin on May Day , 1937
Alexandre Barmine, ex-member of the Russian Communist Party, said he was sure that the man was his old pal, Anastase Mikoyan, who has since 1938, held the post of Vice Chairman of the Council of the People's Trade Commissariat and Foreign Trade Commissar.
Lev M. Karakhan, the deputy commissar for foreign affairs, was chosen as plenipotentiary for the negotiations.
Having become commissar for foreign affairs (July 21 , 1930, he was the principal Soviet delegate to the World Disarmament Conference held at Geneva in 1932.
Litvinov returned to active duty in 1941 after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, serving first as ambassador to the United States (November 1941 August 1943), then as deputy commissar for foreign affairs.
Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Molotov was picked by Stalin to replace Maksim Litvinov as the Soviet commissar of foreign affairs (May 1939).
He then resumed his diplomatic career, participating in the final stage of negotiating the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with Germany and subsequently becoming people's commissar for foreign affairs (May 1918).
Soviet diplomat and commissar of foreign affairs (1930 39), who was a prominent advocate of world disarmament and of collective security with the Western powers against Nazi Germany before World War II.
