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...Banque of l'Union Parisienne. The Russians made a brief call on Paris and came back to St., Petersburg with money with which to pay for Schneider armaments. From that time until, in 1918, the Soviet government of Russia expressed its official uninterest in paying the debts of the Czarist regime, sixteen billion gold francs, drained slowly from the savings of the French people, were loaned to Russia, secured by bonds that have long since been tossed on the rubbish heap. Most of the profit in the sixteen billion found its way back to Schneider-Creusot and is today...
...have had many offers to augment my collection of Czarist Treasures by acquiring jewels and works of art which once belonged to bygone crowned heads of Europe...
...been short-sighted and unwise, For Holy Russia tried this experiment before, during, and after the World War, and the result was disastrous. Some of the best Jewish brains were driven over to the Communist Party, where they played brilliant and important roles in the successive overthrows of the Czarist, Miliukov, and Kerensky governments. Hitler would do well to take careful note of this example. The Marxist movement is powerful today in Germany; and the Nazis cannot afford to deflect ability and energy to their enemy's camp...
...MONTH IN THE COUNTRY?Love life in rural Czarist Russia (TIME, March...
...Storr-Best is thoroughly acquainted with the Bolshevist educational system as it works out at present, as well as with the old Russian system which flourished under the Czarist regime. In addition to having lived many years in Russia, Dr. Storr-Best has recently taken extended trips through Czechoslovakia, Ingoslavia, Roumania, and Bulgaria for the British Board of Education with the purpose of making a detailed investigation of all types of education in these countries...