Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salt herrings and blue blood account for Norway's choice as umpire. The good value she gives in selling fish to the Soviet monopoly has made her sturdy friends at Moscow; and her tall, vigorous King Haakon VII is the only living brother-in-law of Britain's frail, gallant George V. Naturally the new British Labor Government thought first of Neighbor Norway when it decided to make conciliatory overtures to Russia through some honest friendly little state...
Last week the efficient Norwegian Foreign Office wangled as go-between with conspicuous success. Moscow held out at first for unconditional recognition, but finally, responding through Oslo to London's overtures, agreed to participate in a prerecognition parley with the British. Result: suave Comrade Valerian Dovgalevsky, the Soviet Ambassador at Paris, received a long code cable from his superiors, ordered his trunks packed, his briefcase stuffed, and hurriedly crossed the Channel. An indifferent sailor, M. Dovgalevsky was grateful for the prevailing calm weather...
...Practical politics" demands that before the British Labor Government recognizes Soviet Russia, Moscow must give an air-tight pledge that any diplomats she may send into Britain will eschew Red propaganda. The British Liberals also insist on some sort of engagement that Soviet Russia will repay British holders of Imperial Russian bonds at least in part. Last week as Mr. Henderson sat down to chat with Comrade Dovgalevsky even professed optimists doubted whether Moscow would yield now on two points which she has so long refused to concede. Still it was a great, significant event that, with small Norway...
Facts seemed to be that severally and collectively the U. S., Britain, France and Japan had all admonished China with especial sternness. Though by no means sympathetic with Moscow, the Great Powers advised Nanking that the Chinese seizure of the Russian-staffed Chinese Eastern Railway (C.E.R.) in Manchuria, three weeks ago, was indefensible. The seizure, of course, provoked the crisis (TIME, July...
...dinner which the 99 attended in Moscow was tendered them by the Soviet Department for Western Trade. Pursuant to a Soviet request "to kindly leave behind furbelows, top hats, canes and other vanities that might strike a bourgeois note in the communist paradise," the 99 tourists attended in sack suits, travelling dresses. When the star-spangled strains had subsided, Comrade Poliayukov, president of the Russian-American Trading Corporation, rose beaming at the head of the speaker's table and boomed: "Welcome to Soviet Russia. While you are here you are invited to partake of as much vodka and caviar...