Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Dorgan, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and vociferous critic of Communists, said last night that he supported the University's action and promised he would get "brother Browder a good passport to take him to the University of Moscow where he belongs...
Ambassador Stoica had just conferred in Ankara with Turkish Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu, who in turn had just returned from nearly a month of desultory negotiations in Moscow with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, negotiations which finally collapsed. When he went to Moscow, Mr. Saracoglu was believed to be acting not only for Turkey but also as "honest broker" for Rumania in the touchy question of Bessarabia, the rich province which Rumania seized from Russia in 1918. Last week, after King Carol had received full particulars of what Ambassador Stoica had been able to learn from the Turkish Foreign Minister...
Complaints against the Allied blockade have been registered by Argentina, Chile, Japan, The Netherlands, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries, the U. S. But these complaints were private. Last week Germany's big new friend Russia complained formally, officially. In a note handed at Moscow to British Ambassador Sir William Seeds, Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin found the interests of neutral countries gravely impaired, international trade destroyed...
During one of those shortages of cash that seem to be chronic in the planned economy, Moscow sends Comrades Bul-janoff, Iranoff and Kopalski to Paris to sell confiscated jewels. Though at first they ask, "What would Comrade Lenin say?" about stopping at a swank hotel, the answer soon comes clear: "Comrade Lenin would say, 'The prestige of the workers must be upheld.' We cannot go against Comrade Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful...
Though the comedy becomes somewhat chilled when the comrades return to Moscow, there are such inspirations as a parade on the Red Square with marchers stolidly carrying hundreds of identical pictures of Stalin. There are scenes in Ninotchka's small apartment whose limited lebensraum she shares with a girl cellist, a beefy Russian streetcar conductress of the kind Poet e. e. cummings called "non-men," and a dark, dumpy little man who plods silently in & out-"You never know whether he is going to the washroom or the secret police...