Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Joynson-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, took a step of such grave moment last week, as to threaten his own position in the Baldwin Cabinet, and render probable a break in the diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia...
...popular parlance, has the name of being an able and upright man, but a passionate, implacable foe of "Communism" in its every manifestation. He and Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, have been trying for months if not years to get the Cabinet to break with Russia, against the sober judgment of Premier Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...
Since so much of conflicting testimony has come out of Russia during the past years the Student Council of New York realizes that there is no way of determining the truth except by visiting Russia. With this in mind, delegates are wanted with those qualities which will make for various and open minded investigation. The delegation is to be composed for the most part of undergraduates who are authorized representatives of undergraduate associations, college forums and social science clubs. They are thus made to feel their responsibility to the groups which they represent to act as "reporters" upon their return...
Sailing dates have been completed. The main body will leave New York on the Mauretania on June 15, will spend eight weeks in Russia and two in Europe. Those who cannot sail with this group will sail on the Berengaria on June 29th, will spend six and a half weeks in Russia and two in Europe. The delegation will return to New York on September 8; making it a 12 week trip for the main group and a ten week trip for the late group...
Their intention is by no means chimerical. Russia already has a perfect monopoly of wheat sales, and in two years will be ready to export 100,000,000 bushels yearly, said its representative, Saul G. Bron...