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...Kosack, never in his life served as a Kosack, that is in an irregular cavalry, but upon serving his two years, eight months stretch in a regular cavalry, in Nijegorodsni dragoons, he re-enlisted. I don't remember for how many times. Eventually he served in Persia in 1914-17 as a sergeant-major of esquadron 4, same regiment, quartered in Hamadan, Persia. . . . When Budenny eventually was heard from, he was a head of a regular cavalry outfit, nominally of course: you admit that Reds eventually had to send him to the school at the age of 46 years...
Formerly in service with Signal Corps of Russian Army in Persia, 1915-1917, Hamadan billet. Sacramento, Calif...
...specially discussed by the conferees, but the vast horizon for military action which the Council now contemplates was revealed by comments from authoritative quarters after the conferees dispersed. This horizon now stretches all the way from the Arctic Ocean around through the Atlantic and Mediterranean to the Gulf of Persia. In Paris, wise talk was about swiftly increasing aid for Finland (see p. 24). In London it was reported that M. Daladier had proposed breaking off relations with Russia, but that Mr. Chamberlain restrained him, preferring to let Russia take that initiative. The Manchester Guardian reported: "The Allies are moving...
...metamorphosed into Joseph Stalin, Aggressor. And unfortunately his aggression was taking great bites out of German spheres of ambition. Would it not be better, suggested the newspaper, if, like Alexander, Joseph Stalin buckled on his breastplate and greaves and struck out for Illyria, Phoenicia, Babylonia, the empires of Persia and those lands which are watered by the Indus...
Next decade, after squabbles with England over Afghanistan, Persia, the borders of India and Russia's whirlwind expansion into Asia, Russia had teamed up with France; Englishmen were quoting Kipling's "The Bear that walks like a "Man"; Russians were damning England as the land of money-loving merchants. Thereupon, in 1907, they agreed to an alliance against Germany. By 1917, after the Bolshevik Revolution, they were enemies again; in 1927, three years after they had exchanged chargés d'affaires, England broke off relations as a result of Comintern anti-British propaganda in China...