Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Peking when I pointed out Germany's wrong policy in Eastern Asia. Furthermore it was I who, as representative of the Foreign Office on Germany's Eastern front, as early as the summer of 1917 at Vilna pointed out the necessity of a separate peace with Russia." The Kaiser cocked his head to one side and thought for a few minutes, then said: "Come with me into my study-you are to have my renunciation." And a moment later he became legally an ex-Kaiser...
...barrels) the matter seemed probably fortuitous. Last week's information that in August Venezuela again surpassed Mexico (5,-290,807 barrels against slightly more than 5,000,000 barrels) definitely ranked Venezuela as the third largest oil yielding country, exceeded only by the U. S. and Russia. The largest U. S. corporation working Venezuelan fields is the Lago Oil & Transport Co. (subsidiary of Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co.); larger than Lago is Venezuelan Oil Concessions Ltd. (subsidiary of Royal Dutch). Distance from Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, to U. S. Atlantic coast ports is 1,500 miles; from Tampico, Mexico...
...last week came out of Russia. One, Geroid Tanquary Robinson, instructor at Columbia University, arrived in Paris after two years spent in Sovietland. The other, James Hudson Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, reached Warsaw, capital of Poland, after a month spent in investigating conditions under the Bolshevik regime. Both said much...
...Maurer: "I am favorably impressed. After hard experiences and many shocks, Russia is recovering under the present regime, which is introducing new methods to replace the extremely backward system of the old regime...
...Food in Russia is very cheap. Clothing is expensive, but prices are gradually diminishing...