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CALL IT "SILENT VICTORY" BERLIN, Germany, May 4.— Another "silent victory" for Nazi Germany was read today in the retirement of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff, but authoritative German quarters insisted that Russo-German relationships cannot change for the better while the Communist Internationale remains an active factor in Moscow politics. Nazis hailed Litvinoffs disappearance as heralding collapse of British efforts to create a common "stop-Hitler" front based upon Soviet Russian participation in the East. There was immediate insistence, however, that Communism as such must disappear as a pre-requisite to Russo-German collaboration. "The Nazi fight against the Soviets will continue," an authoritative spokesman said, "as long as the Comintern remains active under such figures as Dimitrov and other Bolsheviks." Official quarters awaited further developments in Moscow before estimating the true significance of Litvinoffs retirement, but it was pointed out that Stalin himself had repeatedly demonstrated his determination to remain aloof from western entanglements.
