Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Delegates representing all the Great Powers, except Russia, and most of the potent minor nations, met at Geneva last week, forming an assembly whose 22-word title sketched its purpose: The Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, being a Commission to prepare for a Conference on the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments...
Fighters. ("Regular Army") : France - 733,707; Russia - 562,967; Great Britain - 520,948 ; Italy-308,000; Japan- 235,056; The U. S. 136,560; Germany...
...there lives a grandson of Russia's last Tsar, what is his surname...
...Rome-to-Nome). Pausing only long-enough to refuel and bundle themselves more thickly in furs, Colonel Nobile and his mates cast off again and sailed all through another Arctic night, out over Barent's ice-strewn sea for Spitzbergen. The headwinds that had buffeted the Norge over Russia, causing her to wallow and pitch like a great grey air whale, changed to following winds that added speed and made life more endurable for the wakeful voyagers, forced to stand close-packed in their unheated gondola. Bear Island was raised and passed without the fog complications that had been...
...April 10, 1922, Lloyd George succeeded in assembling the representatives of the Allied Powers at Genoa, there to dictate to the Foreign Ministers of Russia (Tchitcherin) and Germany (Rathenau), (subsequently assassinated) the terms of a general European economic peace. On April 17 Tchitcherin and Rathenau, realizing that they would get only, harsh terms from the Allies, slipped off to Rapallo and signed a mutual economic agreement on a "most favored nation" basis. When the Treaty of Rapallo was announced at Genoa, it created such consternation that that conference subsequently dispersed without notable accomplishment. This Treaty must be carefully distinguished from...