Word: rakovski
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Soviet Government proposed to recall M. Leonid Krassin, Soviet Trade Commissioner in London, and replace him with M. Christian Rakovski, one time associate of Foreign Minister Georges Tchicherin. The change was to all intents and purposes completed (TIME, Aug. 13), when Lord Curzon demanded that M. Rakovski's departure from Moscow should be delayed pending investigations into some of his anglophobe utterances...
...Trade Commissioner is Russia's nearest approach to an ambassador, the British Government had every right to refuse to receive M. Rakovski as the Russian representative. Conversely the Soviet Government could and probably would refuse to receive Lord Curzon as British representative at Moscow...
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