Word: charging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow went Leonid Krassin, Bolshevik Ambassador to France; Nikolai Krestinsky, Bolshevik Ambassador to Germany; Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires in Britain. In the capital they are to sit in solemn conclave with the chiefs of the Communist Party. It was rumored that they would decide to recognize the debts to foreign countries contracted by the Tsarist régime...
...three days a train chugged Ambassador Jean Herbette to Moscow, where he was met by Chief Protocol Floninsky, the French Chargé d'Affaires and a guard of honor and was conducted to the French Embassy to the strains of a military band playing the Toreador's March from Carmen. M. Herbette was amazed, expected the band to play the Marseillaise, but was told that foreign national anthems are forbidden in Russia. Bolshevik reporters called a few minutes later at the Embassy; to them the Ambassador said...
From the desk of Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires in London, to the desk of Georg Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Commissar for Foreign Affairs in Moscow, is about 1,600 miles as the crow flies. By means of the wireless, the brusque message (TIME, Dec. 1) of the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Austen Chamberlain, sped across the intervening space in next to no time; and the messages of Georg to Austen sped back by the same route. All this took place within a few days...
Premier Stauning of Denmark informed the Russian Chargé d'Affaires that he declined in the name of the Nation to accede to the Bolshevik Government's request. As the Dowager Empress has been living quietly in Denmark since 1917, and as she is a Danish princess, the refusal of the Premier was wholly comprehensible...
Then the Brazilian censor swore he had found a leak. He arrested Charles M. Kinsolving, manager of the United Press in Brazil, charged him with "defiance." The American Chargé d'Affaires remonstrated, Kinsolving was freed...