Word: karakhan
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...most spectacular example of Soviet docility came from the Foreign Commissariat. It was discovered that tall, swart Leo M. Karakhan had been quietly transferred from his important post as chief of the Far Eastern section of the Foreign Office, will in the future busy himself with the Near East. And a Moscow court last week gave stiff jail sentences to four Russian coastguardsmen who last July killed three Japanese crab fishermen...
...Comrade Karakhan won ill fame when the Chinese kicked him out of Peking, where he was Ambassador. They found his Embassy crammed with the apparatus of Red propaganda (TIME, May 3, 1926). Today Comrade Karakhan is Soviet Vice...
After that Mr. Hirota and Comrade Karakhan got down to business. It took them two days to make a deal. During that time Japanese apprehension betrayed itself in Japanese press denunciations of Russia, Japanese charges that Russian troops were "stealthily entering Manchuria...
Suddenly on the third day, the Imperial Government assured Tokyo correspondents that everything was all right. Comrade Karakhan and Ambassador Hirota had arrived, said the Japanese Government spokesman, at the following gentlemen's agreement...
...divided into two zones, Northern Manchuria and Southern Manchuria. Neither Russia nor Japan will send troops into Northern Manchuria, adjacent to the Soviet frontier, "unless unexpected events occur." So long as Japan confines her military action to Southern Manchuria, where her chief interests lie, the public declaration of Comrade Karakhan will stand: Russia will keep hands...