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There is a situation in Turkey of which Senator King presented two aspects. The basic fact of this situation is that the Turks have moved their capital from Constantinople to Angora, as have the Bolsheviki from Leningrad (Petrograd) to Moscow. At Constantinople many of the Powers have costly embassy buildings and are not disposed, as the Turkish Government would have them do, to move to Angora, which, as a city, is neither prepossessing nor conveniently situate. But the chief reason upon which their refusal is based is the expense of building new embassy or legation quarters at primitive Angora...
Following this reaction, the year 1924 in Russia was economically and politically rotten. The country went from bad to worse. Cooperative trading between town and village broke down; industrial unrest assumed alarming proportions at Leningrad and Moscow; the peasants stuck more closely than ever to their hoarded grain; the capitalists, such few as there were, were hounded into inactivity. On top of this, came heavy frost in the autumn before the first snowfall, with incalculable damage to the sown grain. Abroad, Communism saw an intractable U. S., a change of Government in Britain, that could hardly be looked upon...
Divorced. Alexander Kerensky, Premier of the Russian revolutionary Government of 1917, now editor of an anti-Soviet newspaper in Prague, by Mme. Kerensky; in Leningrad. She charged desertion...
During the last 20 years, M. Koussevitsky has acquired much fame at his work in England, Paris, and Leningrad, where he has done much to promote the modern school of music...
...himself destined to rule the world. Zinoviev is a gay liver, a lover of wine, champagne and good cheer. He has suffered a lot and knew privation in his youth; and now abandons himself licentiously to pleasures. The dancers of the old Russian ballet and the beautiful women of Leningrad are flattered to be the friends of Zinoviev. Being very generous, nothing is too precious for his friends. Pearl necklaces, Imperial jewels, famous paintings, Gobelin tapestries are to be found today in the hands of the women who enjoy Zinoviev's friendship...