Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last three weeks the Hearst newspapers have been printing facsimilies of letters reported to have been written by General Calles of Mexico, indicating activities in Nicaragua and Russia, which are interesting, if true, although possibly untimely...
This "nothing of importance" was the "November Revolution" of 1917. Out of it clanked and reared the present Communist State, trampling down Kerensky's puny and irresolute Republic. Last week the present masters of Communist Russia made public, contemptuously, the diary of the onetime Tsar of all the Russias, written at Tobolsk. On Nov. 14, when Nikolai Lenin's dictatorship was six days old, Diarist Nicholas Romanov was still in ignorance of its existence and jotted placidly: "Today is the birthday of dear mama* and the 23rd anniversary of our marriage. At noon we heard prayers. The choir...
Thus spoke at Manhattan, last week, the President of the United Press Associations, Karl August Bickel, keen, versatile Scripps-Howard newspaper executive, recently returned from around-the-world journey which included Russia. Soon Mr. Bickel continued: "While I visited Moscow Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, despite the fact he was so ill that he was compelled to remain in bed, was good enough to talk with me one evening ... of Russian-American relations...
...Russia is ready to recognize our American obligations,' Tchitcherin said, 'and we have been ready to negotiate for their repayment for some time. The sum is a comparatively small one -about $275,000,000, I think. We are ready also to take up the question of certain American property in Russia that has been taken over by the Russian government and operated by us since...
...Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The Thesis. Nine years after the "war to end war," war is still a legal institution. Italy rattles her arms in France's ear; Great Britain looks at Japan and prepares Singapore; Japan, the United States and Great Britain engage in a naval armament race; Russia growls at Rumania; in times of peace everyone is making ready. But isn't war unthinkable? Would it be possible to prosecute another war successfully with the memory of the Great War's horrors so fresh in the minds of the people? War is always unthinkable-until...