Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...redheaded" Winston Churchill, ultra-reactionary Chancellor of the British Exchequer, alarmist par excellence, hurled defiance at the Soviet government last week in terms so abusive as to make a diplomatic protest from Russia all but inevitable...
...hope I shall live to see the day when either there will be a civilized government in Russia or when we shall have ended this present pretense of friendly relations with men who are seeking our overthrow. . . . "What folly Lloyd George committed when he brought these Russian intriguers into our midst! . . . "I have to add this warning. Persons who lend money to Russia, as they are entitled to do, must be alive to the risks they run and understand that, in no circumstances, will the British Treasury accept any responsibility if they are defrauded...
Transparently the Baldwin Cabinet is badly strained over its attitude toward Russia. Ministers Churchill, Joynson-Hicks and Lord Birkenhead, ultra -Conservatives, reputedly did all in their power last week to induce Foreign Minister Chamberlain, Premier Baldwin and other cool heads to "stop selling British pots to Bolshevik cannibals...
...evident that Soviet Russia is unique in the amount of verbal abuse which it will tolerate from a British minister...
Married. Arthur Ruhl, famed and able European correspondent (TIME, Sept. 28, RUSSIA, "Ruhl's Report") for the New York Herald Tribune, to Zinaida Yakounchikoff, a Russian refugee; in Berlin. Her father, now a Riviera hotel keeper, was once a Tsaral functionary. Until recently she gave language lessons in Berlin...