Word: bolsheviks
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Since the Russian Embassy in Washington was vacated by the last Imperial envoy, 16 years have passed. In 1919 a favorable report on Bolshevik Russia by a young diplomat named William Christian Bullitt was rejected by Woodrow Wilson in Paris; no one believed Bullitt when he insisted that the Bolsheviks would remain in power. A roly-poly Russian named Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was refused a visa when Lenin appointed him Soviet Ambassador...
...Shatov's party. Big Bill had just completed the 1,475-mi. Turksib Railway, linking Siberia and Turkestan. Nothing was too good for him. Soviet orators praised his lurid past as a frequently jailed I. W. W. roustabout all over the U. S. As the senior U. S. Bolshevik in Russia, beaming Big Bill cried, "We old ones have built this road for you- for young, free Russia! You must remember to work in your turn for the Soviet State! Make it strong and great-not for your sake, but for the sake of all humanity...
Professor Hopper will go to Asia on a grant from the Bureau of International Research to study "Bolshevik Practice in Relation to Contiguous Asiatic States...
...basis for supposing that he will be pardoned by the governor; the same forces that have prevented four other governors from doing this are still in the field; the Public Utilities still cherish a grudge against the man who fought them vigorously when he was free; and the Bolshevik-phobia still grips California so tightly that only a politician weary of holding office would dare run counter...
...slightly choleric tone with a faint but perceptible reddening of the gills, John Bull has bellowed a loud protest at the Soviet Union for its jailing of four British subjects on charges of sabotage. Conservatives and reactionaries in the Oemmons gleefully welcomed the pretext to indulge in verbal Bolshevik-baiting, dwelling fervidly on the wicked OGPU and its modern inquisition tendencies. Threats to cancel lrade and diplomatic relations with Russia are noised about. Meanwhile Russia has announced her intention to go through with the trial...