Word: bolshevikis
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...fact that the Soviet Government cannot now obtain on their own terms the big loan that it hoped to raise in London. The British Government let it be known that there could be no thought of a Government guarantee for any loan made to Russia. This means that the Bolsheviki in London will have to negotiate direct with British bankers who, according to recent statements, will not lend Russia a penny until private British investors' claims have been satisfactorily settled. This, in turn, means that the Moscow Government must modify its financial and legal systems in order to make...
...recognition of Russia being at present out of the question, London is the only place in the world where Russia can obtain the large credits requisite to her reconstruction. The situation was therefore one of extreme seriousness for the Bolsheviki and it was probably because of the gravity of the present stage of negotiations that Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, scurried from Moscow across the face of Europe to the British Metropolis. The Times, displaying an attitude entirely in keeping with that of the greater part of the British press, printed a letter from one Athelstan Riley, Seigneur...
...named Leningrad (TIME, April 14). Under the Kremlin walls in Moscow excavations were made for a permanent Lenin tomb. Popular superstition has had it for many centuries that there exists an "underground Kremlin" full of priceless treasures of medieval Tsars. This has been discovered to be fact, and the Bolsheviki, having discovered many wondrous things, are fired with the hope of extracting riches undreamed...
Captain Sourov, aide to Admiral Kolchak who tried in 1920 to wrest Sovietland from the Bolsheviki, was sentenced to death. He said he was sorry, promised to become a "100%" Bolshevik. It made no difference, amnesty was refused, he was shot...
...despatch stated that the Pope was "intensely angry." Moscow Bolsheviki had imprisoned 15 novices of the Women's Franciscan Order, ten Catholic priests. No charge, it was stated, had been filed against the women; the priests were charged with disseminating anti-Soviet propaganda; all were doing relief work. The Pope contemplated "strong action...