Word: krassins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Leonid Krassin, 56, Russian Soviet Chargé d'Affaires ("Ambassador") at London; in London, of pernicious anemia, after numerous blood transfusions had failed to save his life. "The Bourgeois Bolshevik," he enjoyed the confidence of Lenin and Trotsky although he held much more moderate views than theirs. He negotiated most of the commercial treaty on which Soviet commerce rests today. He was rec ognized as Ambassador at Berlin and Paris, but although he was accredited in London as an Ambassador the British Government never recognized him as anything but a chargé d'affaires. Six thousand British...
Some two months ago M. Christian G. Rakovsky, then Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain, and M. Leonid Krassin, who occupied the same office in France, ware exchanged between these two posts by order of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union...
...Krassin left France without ever having received the custom-sanctioned honor of hearing the national anthem of his country played when he visited President Doumergue. For 50 days M. Rakovsky has been vowing that he would never call on M. le Président at all unless assured that the "Internationale" would blare from the Elysée at his approach...
...Tichmenev, Secretary of the Bolshevik Embassy, was on hand to receive the Presidential party in the absence of Ambassador Leonid Krassin in Russia. Instead of waiting for the formal introduction and then showing the President the assembled collection of Red art, M. Tichmenev rushed him to a plush-covered table on which were four glasses of champagne...
...Krassin blushed, stammered a polite mille pardons, adjured the senators to stay, assured them that the demonstration would cease instantly. But it did not; the Bolshevik Ambassador was helpless. Greatly embarrassed, the senators left. Greatly embarrassed, the Krassins followed...