Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Probably no man understands these and other delicate matters better than Mr. MacMurray. Since graduation from Princeton, he has filled diplomatic posts in Siam, Russia, China, Japan. In 1919, he became Chief of the Far Eastern Division of the State Department, last year was elevated to an assistant Secretaryship of State. As soon as Minister Schurman accepted the Berlin post, Mr. MacMurray was put forward as the ideal candidate for Peking. Would politics interfere? Could Senator Curtis persuade the President to appoint his fellow-Kan- san, William S. Culbertson? Could some other Senator win the post for some one else...
...This criticism", he continues, referring to the editorials, "is often unduly violent. This may be inevitable, as in pre-revolutionary Russia, but it is none the less significant. President Eliot fears for the future of the presidency just because of the criticisms that are heaped upon the incumbent. He believes that the life service tradition should be held inviolable but that men are liable to break, or to be driven from office. This condition, if it were obtained, would cause the kind of man which the office demands to avoid it, tion, it assumes a super...
...terms under which the concession was granted expressly provided that the Sinclair interests should attempt to enlist the cooperation of the U. S. Government. There seems no reason to doubt that the Bolsheviki hoped to force the U. S. to recognize Russia by making it afford the Sinclair Co. protection. No account was taken of the political theory of the U. S. that no private interest can dictate the foreign policy of the Government at Washington...
...suggested in well-informed circles that the Bolshevik Government annulled the concession on the ground that the U. S. had not been induced to recognize Russia; but, not being willing to cancel the contract on this ground, a technical reason was found. Whatever the cause of the Russian Government's action, it at least provided an object lesson to others of the difficulty of dealing with an unrecognized government...
...Russia ranked third among world's oil producers last year with 45,162,000 barrels. That the Russian oil industry is steadily being rehabilitated is shown by production in recent years: it was 29,150,000 barrels...