Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia Guilty...
Pavel Ephimovich Dybenko, young and colorful Communist, emerged into the news again for an instant last week when Dictator Stalin of Soviet Russia appointed him Chief of the Red Army Supply Service...
...that the Hearst Sunday Feature Service was broadcasting what purported to be a speech delivered by President Mustafa Kemal Pasha to his "War Council" at Angora. President Kemal Pasha was quoted as saying that he had received assurances from Persia, the Egyptian Nationalists, Syria, Afghanistan, Mesopotamia, China and Soviet Russia that those nations are ready to enter "an Oriental League of Nations predominated by Russia and Turkey . . . supported by a million bayonets . . . with the potential possibilities of arraying ten million fighting men against ... the West." To serious diplomatic watchers of the sky, the annoying thing about Hearstian scoops is that...
Portents. In diplomatic circles the belief was current that the Odessa conference was concerned with arriving at an understanding whereby Turkey will be able to apply for membership in the League of Nations without violating certain treaty obligations by which she is bound to Soviet Russia. The wild guesses and speculations current in the Occidental press caused loud reverberations of scorn in the Levantine and Japanese press. Levantine editors remarked that the violent "Westernizing" campaign being carried on in Turkey by Kemal Pasha precludes his ever being regarded by Orientals with anything but suspicion. At Tokyo, the Board of Directors...
Married. Katherine Wright, sister of Orville and the late Wilbur Wright (airplane inventors); to Henry J. Haskell, 52, associate editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star; in Oberlin, Ohio. Married. Audrey Emery, "Diana of Cincinnati,"* daughter of the late John J. Emery; to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch of Russia; at Biarritz, France. By the marriage she becomes Princess Anna Ilyinska, cousin-germain to Queen Marie of Rumania. Married. Patricia Andrews Herron, niece of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who gave the bride away; to one Joseph Lancaster Brent; in Washington...