Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...versatile of the three. She edits The Workers' Dreadnought and Germinal. She has "hunger struck" 14 times, and always had to be forcibly fed. She has founded: 1) Clinics, cost-price restaurants and co-operative toy-factories for War veterans; 2) Societies to expose Fascismo, give information about Russia, and promote feminine culture...
...rebellion which it inspires. The attitude of its administrators must recognize that the best patterns are those which are most fragile. Mr. Bertrand Russell has pointed out somewhere that the State of New York until very recently held it to be a criminal misdemeanor to teach communism while Soviet Russia had enacted laws to require the teaching of communism. Either the state of New York or Soviet Russia was wrong about communism, and they were both wrong about education. The rigid application of a pattern can have no result other than to stifle that intellectual audacity which lies...
Ambassador Rakovsky: "I must declare that since 1919 we have proclaimed the desire to find a solution of the debt problem which will satisfy the little bondholders. Because of erroneous conceptions as to what has happened in Soviet Russia it has not always been seen in France that the solution of such a problem must be purely practical and take account not only of the interests of the French bondholders, but also of the changes in the psychology of the peoples of the Soviet Union and the necessity they are under of obtaining material assistance such as will permit them...
...Soviet Russia is apparently determined to make repayments only in the form of higher interest than usual on further loans to be made to her by France. It was declared unofficially that new loans at 7%, with 4% additional "on account of debts," were in the minds of the Russians last week...
...Extremely well authenticated reports from Paris indicated that the Russian Commission was empowered to negotiate the granting of Russian oil concessions to French capitalists, in return for which the loans just mentioned would be advanced to Russia. Fiscal experts opined that unless the Soviets are willing to bind their bargain by well protected concessions of this nature, no bargain will be struck...