Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From all this let us simply conclude with the hope that when well-meaning Americans agitate for the withdrawal of our troops from Siberia, they will do it bearing clearly in mind what that withdrawal is likely to involve. Personally, were I a Bolshevik, I should be strongly in favor of keeping American troops in Siberia; or, on the other hand, were I a Japanese, I should be strongly in favor of their withdrawal. C. P. WINSOR...
...discuss the situation with the conservative because he thinks it impairs the confidence placed in him by his constituents, the conservative avoids intercourse with the radical because he has decided against radical ideas per se or because his reputation may suffer. He is likely to be called a Bolshevik sympathizer, and with that, all his opportunity for constructive criticism ceases. And the two factions drift so far apart that they scarcely speak the same language...
...Martens, self-styled "Ambassador" from Soviet Russia, that he be permitted, on behalf of the government he represents, to furnish transportation back to Russia for those Russians who have become persona non grata to the United States, is one that should meet with instant and unqualified approval. If Bolsheviks and other agitators, dissatisfied with life under the Stars and Stripes, claim that lovely Russia is the only real place to live, by all means let them go there, and if their government wants to pay their traveling expenses, so much the better. As long as an alien lives peaceably...
...State Department gave on November 4 its reasons for the policy of non-intercourse with territory under Bolshevist control. "It is the declared purpose of the Bolsheviki in Russia," said Assistant Secretary of State Phillips, "to carry revolution throughout the world. . . . . . . The Bolshevik government controls the distribution of necessities, the members of the Red Army receiving three times the average for the several categories of the civilian population...
Concerning the Bolshevik method of distribution of necessities, we read in Lincoln Steffens' report of April...