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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secret circular issued by Grand Duke Nicholas, he assured his emissaries within Soviet Russia that Britain had undertaken to finance the campaign...
Nikolai Nikolaievich. The White Russian Congress referred to by Dictator Stalin presented an appeal as follows to the 71-year-old Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich in Paris (TIME, April 19, 1926) : "Monseigneur: The Russian Congress, which unites all the patriots aspiring to the re-establishment of the Russian nation, acclaims in the person of your Imperial Highness the foreordained representative of the nationalist idea as well as the glorious supreme chief of the army and defender of the fatherland since the first days of our Calvary...
...aged Grand Duke, onetime (1914) Commander of all the Armies of all the Russias, made reply to the "White" Congress, thus: "I appreciate keenly the sentiments expressed by the Congress and its affirmation that the Russian emigres are ready to second my efforts to save the fatherland...
Baron Wrangel. Grant that the "White Russians" and Grand Duke Nikolai want to invade Russia. . . . There still remains a question: "Where would they get the 120,000 troops postulated last week by Dictator Stalin...
Significance. The facts just cited make clear that an attempt to invade Soviet Russia might be set in motion at any time by the mere fiat of Grand Duke Nikolai. At 71 he still retains the majestic presence and shrewd acumen which enabled him to carry out the masterly Russian "retreat without victory" in 1915 to new lines so well chosen that they .held against Imperial Germany for two years more...