Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain informed the House that, contrary reports notwithstanding, there was no crisis betwen Britain and Russia over anything...
...reporters he waxed cheerful over conditions in Poland. Asked about finances, he was able to reply in a prolonged burst of optimism that they never had been better. On Russia as a neighbor, he was not less eloquent, but he thought that "the Russian people are worse off and more unhappy" than they were before Bolshevism bowed behind the footlights of the world's stage...
...Russia. In the $12,000,000,000 of War debts owed the U. S. by foreign nations, there is an item of $251,379,035.49 carried on the Treasury's books as owing from Russia. It is the one item on which it is improbable that much if anything will ever be paid. The debt was incurred for war purposes by the Tsarist and Kerensky regimes. When the Kerensky regime went under in November, 1917, most of the Russian money in this country was deposited with the National City Bank of New York. Certain amounts were added to this...
...Britain's debtors are: Russia, France, Italy, Yugo-Slavia, Poland, Rumania, Portugal, Greece, Belgium. The total amount is about $10,000,000,000, but Britain is seeking only to collect $300,000,000 as a final settlement...
Finance Commissar Sokolnikov, before a financial conference at Moscow, said in effect that, although Bolshevik Russia had annulled all debts, she was now willing to negotiate terms of repayment compatible with her financial strength, provided that they (the terms) "give us certain advantages...