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...Paris, M. Georg Tchitcherin and Tewfic Rushdi Bey, respectively the Foreign Ministers of Soviet Russia and Turkey, signed a three-year mutual guarantee compact in three articles and with three attached protocols...
Trained in the old school of Tsaral diplomacy, M. Georg Tchitcherin, now Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union, represents a late and almost perfect flowering of the outworn cult of secret diplomacy. He still employs all its stock phrases, catch-subterfuges which seldom deceive a rabbit-for example, he never "goes on a mission" but "travels for his health." Yet when cornered and pressed for categorical answers to specific questions he speaks with the adroit tongue of a sibyl or a Machiavelli. Last week he arrived at Paris as expected (TIME, Dec. 7), and the Olympian game of interrogating...
...Briand, who were engaged at the moment chiefly in deciding which, if either of them, should be the next Premier of France (see FRANCE, p. 11.) The shabby, bright-eyed stranger who could command an audience with these famed statesmen at such an hour was none other than M. Georg Tchitcherin, famed political stormy petrel and Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union...
Commented Georg Bernhard, leading Liberal publicist, in the Vossische Zeitung...
...concerning China. Unfortunately, the Powers, Britain in particular, have been unable to see the Chinese woods for the trees. British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain in numerous speeches made it evident that the cause of the present Chinese unrest is due to Bolshevik influence, which, of course, Bolshevik Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin indignantly denied. Unbiased reports from China-that is, the average of biased reports, for all communications from that once celestial land are more or less colored-seem unanimous that the root of the disturbances is due to the foreign Powers which exploit China economically and dominate her politically. Bolshevik...