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Died. George S. Bakhmeteff, last Ambassador of Tsarist Russia to the U. S. (1911-17); of heart disease; in exile; at Paris...
...Ughet is carried on the State Department's official diplomatic list as "financial attache" of Russia. Mr. Ughet has nothing to do with the Soviet Government. He represents no existing government. He represents a state that once was. He was left behind by the last Russian Ambassador, M. Bakhmeteff, to settle such of the late Russian Government's debts as could be settled. His verdict of $853,000 from the Lehigh Railroad was for losses of War supplies belonging to the late Russian State. The proceeds are supposed to go to the U. S. Treasury as "interest...
...Messrs. Spargo and Bakhmeteff, reading the stars from a great distance, argue that the new economic policy of Lenin has been abandoned, that contact with Russia is contamination...
...round table, defended the Soviet to the extent of saying that in diplomatic affairs it was honest about immediate matters, that its agents did not participate in Revolutionary propaganda. Arthur B. Ruhl, author, traveler, journalist, who has been much in Russia, came out against Spargo's and Bakhmeteff's indictments of the Soviet as a menace. Colonel William N. Haskell, onetime head of the U. S. Relief Mission' to Russia, urged that a Russo-U. S. Conference would lead to Soviet recognition by the U. S., should soon be held...
...having implied that Labor in the U. S., jealous of its prestige and power, was illiberal toward the Soviets. Wilbur Thomas, head of the Relief Commission of the Society of Friends, and Sir Bernard Pares, one of the editors of the Slavonic Review, joined the anti-Spargo forces. Boris Bakhmeteff kept his peace, raising his voice only to beg the learned disputants to take their debating with somewhat more repose...