Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discreetly either. I wonder if you spotted in that same issue-Foreign column-another error. There is a long article on Maria Feodorovna-nee of Denmark and it goes on to say 'whom you see here' and the accompanying picture is of the murdered Empress Alexandra of Russia." H. G. ADDISON...
Premier Baldwin's brief speech to the House of Commons on Tuesday left little doubt as to whether Britain or Soviet Russia had committed the breach of confidence. A police raid on Soviet House in London secured conclusive evidence that the Russian trade officials, under cover of commercial activities, had used their facilities as a center for the Red International, that vaguely sinister organization devoted to military espionage and subversive activities throughout the Empire, and North and South America as well. Communist agitators were trained on ships of the Russian trading companies with a view to subsequent service on British...
...trusted. The post-war flurry of the "Bol-shevist menace", with other absurdities of the time, has passed; but the mysterious motives of the Soviet Union have not yet been brought to light. The United States, as things stand at present, does more business with Russia than England has been doing with the facilities she afforded the agents of Moscow; and it would seem better to trade ex officio with a viper than to give him headquarters in the official bosom...
Through a lifetime of Russian metamorphoses Baron Wrangel passes to the day when twelve "comrades" were apprehended torturing a lady of the aristocracy by tying against her person an iron pot containing a live, gnawing rat. Seldom has the complete inversion of Russia's civilization been more vividly sketched than by the Baron, who remained in Russia until 1920. Of all Russians he appears to despise most Alexander Kerensky (né Kirbitz), calls him the "Grand Eunuch of the Revolution . . . puppet [of the Soviet leaders] . . . seemed more like a . . . girl . . . selling herself to the first person she meets...
...music manufactures of their countries?16 makes of German pianos, organs, sounding brass and a wide variety of intricate woodwork for translating still air into meaningful reverberations; 19 German and 18 French music publishing exhibits; "His Master's Voice" (Gramophone) from England; instruments and music from the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden; a Steinway piano exhibit from the U. S. There was a colossal German piano that played quarter tones; a weird French orphéal like a harmonium superimposed on a piano...