Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that decadent court of little and weak men, of whom the weakest was perhaps Nicholas II, another and a towering Nicholas always strode with head erect. Too late (1914) Nicholas II placed all the armies of all the Russias under command of his tall, big-boned second cousin, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich, grandson of the Tsar Nicholas I. The German pre-War penetration of Russia had been too deadly for any Russian commander to succeed. Too late the Grand Duke proved himself fit to rank with Ludendorff, Joffre, Mackensen, Foch, by his masterly "retreat without destruction" along the Narew...
...plans must not now anticipate the future destiny of Russia. . . . Our people deprived today of all liberties, alone have the right to establish the bases of their existence It is they who will found the wealth, glory and greatness of Russian power...
...League Delegate. The People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs (Foreign Minister Tchitcherin) sent out a 3,000-word statement to the press last week, the nub of which was that Soviet Russia will not send a delegate to the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Conference at Geneva, now scheduled for May 18. The statement wandered far afield and declared among other things that the recent League fiasco had led to "a weakening of coherence among Western European powers" which "clears a path for the growing American economic penetration of Europe, after which American political penetration is but a step...
...whole administrative system of Soviet Russia is made difficult to understand by the deliberate care with which perfectly well understood relationships are disguised under new and strange names. Thus M. Rykov is not, literally speaking, "Premier" but "Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars," who perform exactly the function of ministers in an ordinary cabinet...
...yacht is the Valfreya, built for Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales. Mr. Brown, when he purchased her, sold another yacht (in which he had sailed from Manhattan never to return) to the Grand Duke Michael of Russia. He ordered the Valfreya?sleek and opulently resembling J. P. Morgan's Corsair?to steam into the little harbor of Brightlingsea, off the Essex coast of England. That...