Word: czar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Czar Convokes His First Crown Council," reads the headline. Grand Dukes of all the Russias, big and little, red and white shaven and unshorn, are ordered to assemble before the august resence of the Mightiest of the Mighty to center upon important matters of state. His Majesty Cyril I has spoken...
...reporters were forth-coming, the generally lurid impression was not modified. One was taught in school that Russia was composed of a very large number of peasants who slept on the stove and consumed a uniquely potent stimulant called vodka, guaranteed to baffle the coldest weather and the Czar, a glorious individual, at whose slightest whim the whole aggregation of peasants would gladly cast itself upon the bayonets of an enemy...
Incredible as all this appears, it is even harder to believe that the "London Times" and "The London Daily Telegraph" were influenced by the Czar's gold to some extent. And what strikes still closer home is the implication that American journalists, dazzled by a ribbon of the Legion of Honor, or covetous of the decoration, send back to America only such news as is pleasing to the French Government. If this is true, nothing could be more unfortunate; nothing could more endanger future Franco-American harmony...
...attributes of a great man except love and humility, but those lacks made him the cynical organizer of a system in which he ceased to believe. Not love but hate was the impelling motive of his life, and so he destroyed one tyranny, that of the czar, only to set up another...
...quite spirited narrative of the diplomatic and propagandist duel that led to the Anglo-Russian Agreement of 1921. On the other hand there are astonishing gaps and omissions. He is practically silent on topics such as the Third International and its relation to foreign propaganda, the execution of the Czar, the debasement of the currency, Lenin's "strategic retreat" towards capitalism in 1921, and the position and operations of the American Relief Commission. Neither does he go into certain outstanding features of the foreign relations of the Soviets, such as their unholy alliance with Mustache Kemal, their position...