Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith College will open the meeting at 7.45 o'clock with a speech supporting the affirmative side of the topic. Professor Barnes has written a book on this subject entitled "The Genesis of the World War" in which he attributes the blame for the late European conflict to Russia and France instead of Germany...
...been widely rumored that the Soviet program of Communist subversion in China will be altered to a policy of attempted co-operation with the first Chinese government which shall emerge strong enough to contract an alliance. As if to forecast this turning of China from Western . Europe to Russia, the present unstable Peking Government recently abrogated the ChinoBelgian trade treaty of 1865.* These developments, admittedly straws bending before changing winds, gave pause to the war prophets last week...
Premier Mussolini looks with a jealous eye at certain portions of the Turkish coast, and is likely to pass from longing to action, if the British Lion has been persuaded into noninterference. An understanding between Soviet Russia and Turkey, judiciously noised in Europe, might well halt the Dictator, no fool...
...Premier Mussolini is an irresponsible fool! . . . The Italian people are gagged and enslaved. . . . The French are remaining calm because they know that Mussolini is a lunatic who must be humored. . . . Italy is under a worse despot today than in the time of Nero. . . . Conditions are worse than in Soviet Russia. A little group is prison warden for the nation. Each man spies upon his neighbor and nowhere is there security . . . . Mussolini will suffer the destiny to which he is doomed...
...fact the Chinese Revolution of 1926 reminds one of England in 1642, France in 1789, Russia in 1917, any, in short, of Europe's great social or political upheavals. It is a real civil war based on a major issue that transcends for the time being all individual interests. The ultimate question to be decided is whether the Chinese people will continue to allow a handful of scheming politicians and ambitious war-lords to keep them in a state of civil bondage or whether they will embrace the comprehensive program of reform offered by the Cantonese...