Word: archangels
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...enthusiastic about the Provisional Government that succeeded the Czar, but when the Bolsheviks took Russia out of World War I the U.S. sent "protective" U.S. forces to Archangel and Vladivostok. The Bolsheviks considered this part of a general capitalist plot against the "Workers' Fatherland," though the presence of U.S. troops kept Japan from biting off eastern Siberia...
...only last fortnight had said again: "The collapse of the Soviet Union . . . cannot be put off any longer than March 1944 . . . then the world will be put in order for Finland." Had the Government of Russia-haters and the dreamers of a Greater Finland running all the way to Archangel misled the people...
Under such handicaps the White Sea League played ball. In Manhattan last week the story of U.S. sports 100 miles below the Arctic Circle was told by a member of the so-called "Forgotten Convoy"-four merchant ships marooned near Archangel from May to November last year...
...first U.S. radio staffmen to broadcast regularly over the Soviet radio was back home last week and talking last week. CBS's dark, thin Larry Lesueur, 33, rolled into Russia via Archangel a year ago. Onetime United Press reporter, he had covered the R.A.F. in France from war's outbreak through Dunkirk, the London blitz as apprentice to CBS's Edward R. Murrow. In talking about Russian radio Lesueur told a lot about Russia...
...Alaska. The writings of Explorers Vancouver and Puget had opened the eyes of his Government. The Northwest became officially Russian and was ruled by Baranov until a few months before his death in 1819. He left behind 24 settlements, "ranging in size from simple hunting stations to New Archangel, whose worth alone was estimated at two million, five hundred thousand rubles...