Word: leonide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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...
Bolshevik Ambassador Leonid Krassin dressed himself in his capitalistic attire of a frock coat and high silk topper. Madame and the Mademoiselles Krassin were adorned in the best that the art of Jean Patou could devise. Together they were driven to the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes...
...Voline, First Secretary of the Bolshevik Embassy in Paris, do it or did he not? Bolshevik Ambassador Leonid Krassin swore he did not. French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand swore that if he did it again he must go (TIME, May 11, FRANCE). "It" was giving support to a Communist demonstration in Paris...
...decommunizing process was unquestionably designed to throw the country open to domestic and foreign enterprise, but it had small chance of success with Zinoviev riding the Third Internationale at a gallop. Christian Rakovsky, Chargé d'Affaires at London, and Leonid Krassin, Ambassador at Paris,* had both complained bitterly about having their every project and diplomatic advance stampeded by Zinoviev and his wild...