Word: bolsheviks
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...Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, replied to critics that he had no intention of resuming negotiations with Bolshevik Russia. "I shall," he said, "consider any proposals made to me, but I have no intention of initiating them...
After the signing of the recent Russo-Japanese Treaty (TIME, Feb. 2), the Bolshevik Government was obliged to cancel the oil concession granted to Harry F. Sinclair on the island of Saghalin. This they did legally through the Moscow District Court (TIME, Apr. 6). Mr. Sinclair subsequently announced his intention of appealing to the Bolshevik Supreme Court...
Sinclair Co. argued that the District Court's ruling was contrary to Bolshevik law and to the terms of the concession agreement. The crux of the defense was that a longer time should have been granted to the Company to carry out its contract. The Supreme Court thought otherwise. Mr. Sinclair, as foreseen, lost his case...
...lever to oust Grigori Zinoviev, chief of the Third Internationale. Stalin and Zinoviev were formerly fast friends and led the recent attacks against Trotzky that led to his political fall (TIME, Jan. 26). It now appears that Stalin (backed by Alexei Rykov, Chairman of the Council,* Karl Radek, notorious Bolshevik propagandist, and some others) is seeking a gradual reconciliation with Trotzky. This, in turn, evidences the fact that Trotzky is still considered a political power by the Bolshevik leaders...
...Voline, First Secretary of the Bolshevik Embassy in Paris, do it or did he not? Bolshevik Ambassador Leonid Krassin swore he did not. French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand swore that if he did it again he must go (TIME, May 11, FRANCE). "It" was giving support to a Communist demonstration in Paris...