Word: bolshevistic
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...Allegedly he inspired the Associated Press to make its widely flayed charge (TIME, Dec. 20) that a "Bolshevist hegemony" is being set up in Nicaragua with Mexican support "between the U. S. and the Panama Canal." The United Press refused to spread this report, which was popped conveniently on the eve of a statement by Secretary Kellogg envisioning a sterner attitude toward Mexico...
...cause seems lost. He is Peter Nicholaievich, Baron Wrangel, the last hope of the "White" Tsarist Russian emigrés. In 1920 the victories of his "White Knights" over portions of the "Red Army" gave hope that the Bolshevist tide might be dammed. Then France and Britain withdrew their support from General Wrangel, he was driven even from Sevastopol, fled. Until last week his refuge was Belgrade, Jugoslavia...
...requested, by Representative La Guardia of New York, to ask Secretary Kellogg to inform it of the origin of an Associated Press despatch which was allegedly inspired by some one in the State Department. The despatch talked of a "Mexican-fostered bolshevist hegemony intervening between the U. S. and the Panama Canal...
...generally believed at Washington to have received military support or at least munitions from Mexico. This has so alarmed even the supposedly impartial U. S. Associated Press that that organization headed one of its lengthiest despatches last week with the following sentence: "The spectre of a Mexican-fostered Bolshevist hegemony intervening between the United States and the Panama Canal has thrust itself into American-Mexican relations...
...government's interpretation of its own laws is more likely to be correct than the interpretation of a foreign power. There have been certain indications that our government realizes that its case is none too strong. It was inadvertently revealed this week that the sensational newspaper stories on Mexican Bolshevist propaganda in Nicaragua were inspired by those "higher up in Washington" to incite further resentment in the United States against the present Mexican government. In view of this revelation it may fairly be asked, how much of the uninformed and unreliable propaganda last summer against the Mexican religious laws...