Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost any Far Eastern matter. Statesman Stimson sent for his excellency Paul Claudel, Ambassador from the other parent country of the Kellogg Treaty and one of the Four Powers. He also called in the British, Japanese and Italian representatives to tell them what went on. Soon from Washington to Moscow, via Paris flashed word that Statesman Stimson thought Russia should be reminded that she had "renounced...
...expulsion was clearly not "an act of war" in the technical military sense (though it was a deadly blow at the Far Eastern commerce of Russia). Consequently, argued the Chinese Foreign Office, last week, China did not violate the Kellogg Pact in ousting the Russians, but if Moscow should take military steps to avenge their expulsion then the Soviet Government would be guilty of a violation, would deserve to be disciplined by other Powers who have signed the Pact...
...From Moscow came no equally authoritative counter charge. Soviet troops were admittedly mobilizing to menace Manchuria like a pair of tongs closing in from Manchuli and Vladivostok. Russian newspapers in the U. S. received word that General Uberovitch had been appointed Soviet Commander-in-Chief. During the World War he served as a regimental commander in the Imperial Russian Army, was later C.-in-C. of the Soviet forces which repulsed the white Russian Armies from Siberia in 1919. Though a taciturn martinet, Comrade Commander Uberovitch is popular in the Red Army, is reckoned its most brilliant strategist...
...draughty Moscow public dining hall a group of 99 U. S. tourists licked up grey beluga caviar last week, wryly gulped throat-scorching vodka. A band struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner." The tourists, clearing their throats, joined in the chorus. "It was the first time," opined the Associated Press, "that 'The Star-Spangled Banner' had been played in Moscow since the War." The day was the eleventh anniversary of the assassination by Soviet executors of Tsar Nicholas...
...Manhattan from Russia for the second time in his life. On his first arrival he was an 11-year-old potato-peeler. Last week he occupied princely staterooms on the Berengaria. In Russia he, a potent Manhattan contractor, turned down a 200-million-dollar subway and waterworks contract for Moscow, because the U. S. does not recognize the Soviets...