Word: krassin
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...hireling bands. Let them fire on us; we shall have rifles and machine guns, too. Better to die rifle in hand than to swell with hunger and expire like dogs." The intense agitation on the part of the workers caused considerable nervousness among the Moscow Governmental hierarchy. Krassin, Kamenev and Zinoviev maintained that grain must be exported. Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissaries, wavered. War Lord Trotzky thought it the height of folly to flout the people's wishes and recommended export of butter, timber, eggs, flax, oil to the West and of sugar...
...Soviet Government proposed to recall M. Leonid Krassin, Soviet Trade Commissioner in London, and replace him with M. Christian Rakovski, one time associate of Foreign Minister Georges Tchicherin. The change was to all intents and purposes completed (TIME, Aug. 13), when Lord Curzon demanded that M. Rakovski's departure from Moscow should be delayed pending investigations into some of his anglophobe utterances...
...American Relief Administration left Russia. In Moscow, Kamenev, Tchicherin, Krassin and other Soviet officials gave an official farewell banquet to the last of the Relief workers in the house in which General Count von Mirbach, German Ambassador to Russia, was murdered in 1918. Champagne and punch flowed freely. Among the American oil men present was Archibald Roosevelt...
...money or goods is reconsidered by the British courts, since a court decision, already handed down in England, denies Soviet ownership of confiscated Russian property. Now a test cast is being brought forward to see if this decision will be reversed. If it is not, the Bolshevist representative, Mr. Krassin, admits that trade is impossible. It is interesting to consider why the agreement should have been signed before the case was decided...
...know what Captain Pettit is going to say in Cambridge on Thursday, but I do know that the Allies have conducted their Russian policy with all the silliness of which human beings are capable. The important question is, are we going to continue our folly? Krassin, the head of the Bolshevik economic activities, is now in Copenhagen, and the Entente is trying to decide whether or not trade will be permitted. Quieting the world by refusing to allow Europe to get food and raw materials from Russia would be a logical continuance of the brains we have shown thus...