Word: kronstadt
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...Kronstadt, of course, Red sailors held jollifications and high jinks. They knew that the L55 is a noble prize of a war which, although never declared (see France), was nonetheless hotly fought. Indeed, the L-55, a ship of 1,150 tons, is almost as large as the recently raised U.S. submarine S-4 (TIME, Dec. 26), and twice as large as the Italian F14, sunk and raised last fortnight. Soviet technicians added to the jollification by announcing that the Red sailors' prize is in sufficiently good condition 'to be made serviceable, seaworthy, deadly. Citizens of the British...
...Pioneering was over. Wireless telegraphy was established as an art and science of significance to all the world. The King of Italy sent a message from Spezia via Kronstadt to the Tsar of Russia and both decorated me, I was given the cruiser Carlo Alberto to cruise upon and experiment further. The freedom of Rome was mine when I visited there in 1903- a modern 'triumph.' I instituted the first ocean daily newspaper, on the S. S. Campania, sent press despatches and many messages for friends back and forth between the Old and New Worlds...
Lenin's reasons are obvious. The trade agreement means but one thing to him, prestige. Kronstadt is in revolution, cities are seething with, unrest, Southern Russia is in arms. The recognition of the Soviets by Great Britain will be a tremendous weapon against this anti-Bolshevist movement. For Lenin will not call it revolution and proclamations will be scattered broadcast declaring the Soviet Russian has compelled capitalistic Great Britain to accept her terms...
...other hand Lloyd George's motives are harder to understand. Most statement would have waited, not only for a final court decision as to the ownership of Russian gold, but until the Kronstadt matter was finally settled. Yet in the critical condition of home affairs a very good reason may be found. As was recently brought out in a discussion in the New York Evening Post, three recent by-elections out of four have gone to Labor or to the Liberals, and one, at Woolwich, was saved for the Coalition by resumed, there can be no possible harm in signing...