Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, simultaneously attempted to lead radio fanatics of the Western Hemisphere in singing "Auld Lang Syne," but it was a bad night and few got the tune. The stations heard most clearly by the U. S. were Lima, Buenos Aires and Madrid. Dubious reports filtered in from Germany and Russia that U. S. stations had been heard there...
...Parliament as an institution that failed, but it was the policies of the leading parties and more than that the magnitude of the task which Germany had to face, while Russia has fallen into Bolshevism, Italy into Fascism, and France is verging on a dictatorship, Germany has succeeded in maintaining her stability and order. The chief task of the new government, Chancellor Luther has stated, will be to overcome the present economic crisis. If it succeeds there will be no dictatorship, but if it does not succeed, there might come temporary experiment of "Wartschafiadiktatur", but it would be a passing...
Signer Maffi, leader of the minute Communist Opposition in the Italian Chamber, flayed the Locarno Pacts when they were presented for ratification last week: "To the false democracy of bourgeois governments which met at Locarno, we Communists oppose the desire for peace of Soviet Russia, which is the only country in the world willing and ready to discuss the question of disarmament. . . . I laugh with those who laugh at Locarno!" While Signor Maffii "laughed," the Chamber ratified the Pacts by a solid Fascist vote, with the Aventine Opposition absent (TIME, Jan. 25) and only two Communists daring to vote contra...
...direction of Poland, flayed Professor Kemmerer for "dashing over to report on Poland's finances, while his classes are taking their Christmas recess." Historians recalled that the Poles have been "pulling through" under adversity for generations. The anciently independent state known as "Poland" was twice partitioned among Prussia, Russia and Austria -at the end of the 18th Century and at the beginning of the 19th. In 1914 only "Austrian Poland" was autonomous. During the war Austro-German forces occupied "Russian Poland," and in 1916 Wilhelm II and Franz Josef proclaimed the independence of "Poland" without defining the area which...
There is significance in Russia's recent overtures to the Mikado's government. It is an old saying, "Scratch a Russian and you'll find a Tartar." And why is it not natural that Japan should seek her place among nations through "the most eastern of Europeans and the most western of Asiatics...