Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revelations. The Premier announced in even, measured tones that His Majesty's Government desired, with the approval of the House, to break off formal relations with Soviet Russia...
...first time what had been discovered by Scotland Yard when its operatives raided Arcos House (TIME, May 23, 30), in which were the premises of the Soviet Trade Delegation which came to London under the Trade Agreement of 1921, during the Lloyd George Ministry. For perhaps an hour the Premier built up his thesis that the Russian Trade Delegation and also the Soviet Embassy have functioned as directing agencies for Communist propaganda, subversion and espionage. The evidence supporting this thesis was a sheaf of telegrams and letters which were stated rather than proved to have passed between the Soviet Trade...
White Book. The evidence cited by Premier Baldwin was released in a White* bearing His Majesty's Arms, last week, and further imprinted with the title: Documents Illustrating Hostile Activities of the Soviet Government and the Third International Against Great Britain...
Debate. For several days the chief Cabinet Ministers and Premier Baldwin hammered home these revelations, not seeming quite to realize that they were only "proving" the sort of thing which most British and U. S. businessmen have unshakably believed about the Soviets for half a decade. There was nothing new, and nothing especially terrifying. How then were these stale "proofs" worthy to justify the new and drastic course of breaking off relations...
...vain Laborites tried to delay the break. Their leader, onetime Premier James Ramsay MacDonald, was still so weak (on his arrival from the U. S. last week) that he could not address the House, but merely hobbled in using a cane. Other Laborites, marshaled by Deputy Chairman of the Labor Party John Robert Clynes, spoke, but under the heavy drawback that they feared to seem to take the part of "Bolsheviks," "Reds...