Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mussolinidies, or, what is more likely, one of his dissatisfied compatriots disposes of him by the simple expedient of murder, what comes next? There are only two kinds of self renewing governments that we know of today,--the parliamentary and the "dictatorship by the proletariat" type in effect in Russia and so-termed by its members. The first is in discredit and the second has already proved itself to be the upward path...
...entering Russia through Poland on my last visit," continued the speaker, in taking up the international policy of the Soviet, "I observed a condition on the frontier which seemed to me symbolic of the attitude of the Russians toward their neighbors. Poland, under the tutelage of France, is a highly militaristic nation overrun by soldiers and bristling with fortifications,--bought with money loaned to them by you and I for the most part, to repair the ravages wrought by other countries in the war. The towns and villages still lie in ruins, but along the entire Poland frontier stretch miles...
...Russia's renouncing of all rights in the little country of Esthonia, and the declaration of the crarist treaty with Great Britain to divide Persia between the two countries as void, are typical examples of the spirit of justice and brotherhood embodied in the foreign policy. This mode of action is a real advance and not nearly so nebulous as the League of Nations or the World Court. The same spirit has been exhibited toward Turkey in the action of the Soviet, in leaving the choice of mandatory or occupation up to Turkey and the small Mohammedan countries...
Rounmata and Poland today hold large strips of white Russia by torce, which after five years of trouble they would gladly return to the Russians. The Romanians have resorted to a depouplation of the territory which they held by the simple means of murder. Russia has been handicapped in the international competition of diplomacy. Every respect able country has tried to discredit the Revolution and yet Russia has managed to carry has experiment to a successful stair...
Nevertheless, he has resurrected "the sick man of Europe", doomed to an early death by the World War, revived him on tonic of blood and iron at Smyrna and established him convincingly at Angora. Once more that redoubtable invalid plays the classic Ottoman game of fast-and-loose with Russia and Britain. He signs the Lausanne pact, and as readily a treaty of amity with Russia. He drives the unbeliever into Greece. He toys with the wily Briton at Chanak, Mosul, and in Irak. He has the very temerity to throw a wrench into the World Court, a deed pardonable...