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...delegations, trimmed up with their little flags, so like a church convention, it is not easy to perish the thought that the League may, at Harvard, be only a kiss for Cinderella. Still, it is pleasant to see the delegate from Siam make a salaum to the gentleman from Azerbaijan. . . In the crimson simplicity of the New Lecture Hall...
...plain human." Died. Sherburne Gillette Hopkins. 63, international lawyer of Washington, D. C.; in Washington. He and his father, Thomas S. Hopkins, legally advised and directed many a Latin-American revolution. Among their clients: Pancho Villa, Francisco Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Adolfo de la Huerta, the republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan in their attempt to gain independence from Soviet Russia. His son, Sherburne Philbrick Hopkins, was Peggy-Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner's second husband. Died. Frederic Cook Morehouse, 64, editor of The Living Church; of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. He was an active lay-leader in the Anglo...
Tadjikistan now ranks with the seven other Independent Socialist Soviet Republics: 1) White Russia; 2) The Ukraine; 3) Armenia; 4) Uzbek; 5) Georgia; 6) Azerbaijan; 7) Turcoman. The joker is that all of these "independent republics" are federated with the Moscow Government of "Russia Proper," officially the R. S. F. S. R. or Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic. In theory the federal bond can be cast off by any Independent Republic at its sole discretion, but in practice such a step would bring Red Army divisions hot from Moscow...
...Regions bounding Persia are (in clockwise order) ; the Republic of Turkey; the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia; the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic; the Caspian Sea; the Socialist Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan ("Turkestan") ; the Amirate of Afghanistan ; the Kalat State of Anglo-Indian Baluchistan; the Gulf of Oman ; the Persian Gulf and (completing the clockwise circle) the Kingdom of Irak, a British mandate...
...what was once the Empire of the Romanovs and what is now the U. S. S. R. are indeed two quite different areas. In the West the Baltic countries from Poland to Finland have split off; in the Near East the Transcaucasian Federation of Soviet Republics (Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan) have been created and linked with the other Socialist Soviet Republics which signed the treaty of union at Moscow...