Word: odessa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tchitcherin Travels. The "T. and T. Conference" at Odessa (TIME, Nov. 22) between Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey and Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin came to a most amiable close last week amid continued, portentous secrecy. As he took ship to sail across the Black Sea to Constantinople, the swarthy dandified Tewfik Rushdi Bey assured newsgatherers that Turkey and the Soviets are now in diplomatic concord, adding darkly: "Turkey does not favor any Western state to the detriment of any Eastern state. . . ." With Tewfik Rushdi Bey gone, M. Tchitcherin, still less communicative, tarried not in Odessa. Bundled...
Grave rumors rumbled in the Near East last week, reverberated in the Far East. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey and Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Valentinovich Tchitcherin met "secretly" at Odessa and discussed there, according to despatches, a Turko-Russian pact which it was allegedly proposed to expand into an "Asiatic League" embracing in addition China, Persia and Afghanistan...
News came from Bucharest last week that the Soviet Russian radio stations at Moscow and Odessa are now broadcasting nightly criticisms of the Rumanian Government in Rumanian and appealing to Rumanian listeners-in to foment a revolt. Vexed, War Minister Mircescu has countered by ordering the Rumanian military radio station to send out "a terrific buzzing" whenever the Soviet Russian stations begin to broadcast...
...meant that before the World War Carol did all he could to thwart her schemes to marry him off to the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia; and that in 1918 he added insult to injury by marrying one Mlle. Zyzis Lambrino, beautiful daughter of a Roumanian officer, at Odessa. In 1919 Queen Marie secured the annulment of the morganatic Lambrino marriage, and tried to pack Carol off on a trip around the world, "to efface the memory of Zyzis." Carol thwarted her temporarily by shooting himself in the leg, and thus delayed his world tour of forgetfulness until 1920. When...
...Germany's disposal. 3) 1917-Directed the Teutonic offensive against Russia, which opened the way to the Black Sea on the collapse of the Russian armies. 4) 1918-Bullied Rumania into peace negotiations, in which she agreed to disband her armies and throw open the route to Odessa to the Central Powers...