Word: brest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peace was concluded with Germany at Brest-Litovsk and ratified by the Congress of "People's Committees" on such unfavorable terms that the dissenting "Lesser Group" or Mensheviki withdrew in protest from the Congress, henceforth Bolshevik...
...Britain made her trade agreement with Russia in March. Republican Germany denounced the treaty of Brest-Litovsk and made a more just peace with Russia in May. Other powers followed suit...
...Russia did at Brest-Litovsk, America has made a separate peace with Germany without even the slightest suggestion of an adjustment with her comrades in arms. That was the blood truce with the common enemy. Today, a money peace between the allied and associated powers is being devised...
...captain of those days was navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig captured by the French on a pretext, her cargo of foodstuffs looted for starving Brest, the guillotine overshadowing all, Cobb loyally strove to secure his owner's just dues. Revolutionary officialdom caressed its neck with premonitory tenderness and did nothing but lose his papers. He forced his way to Robespierre and the sea-green monster granted full indemnities. "I remained in Paris about three weeks after...
...attached to the Curtiss Aeroplane Co. After a brief period at Akron, 0., he was sent to England for instruction in dirigibles under the British Admiralty. During 1918 he was stationed at the U. S. bases at Brest and Quipavas, France...