Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York World: . . . "John Spargo, theorist, . . . has never seen Russia at all save through the somewhat smoky lens of his own profound convictions...
...Messrs. Spargo and Bakhmeteff, reading the stars from a great distance, argue that the new economic policy of Lenin has been abandoned, that contact with Russia is contamination...
Esthonian Minister Biib, at a round table, defended the Soviet to the extent of saying that in diplomatic affairs it was honest about immediate matters, that its agents did not participate in Revolutionary propaganda. Arthur B. Ruhl, author, traveler, journalist, who has been much in Russia, came out against Spargo's and Bakhmeteff's indictments of the Soviet as a menace. Colonel William N. Haskell, onetime head of the U. S. Relief Mission' to Russia, urged that a Russo-U. S. Conference would lead to Soviet recognition by the U. S., should soon be held...
...Haskell, who has been somewhat nearer the scene of action, believes that the time is ripe for a positive policy. Life in Russia, he thinks, is not life in Mars or life very much different from life in any other country, except for the lack of currency...
...world crisis has now persuaded the capitalistic Governments to recognize that without regularizing its relationship with Russia Europe cannot be reconstructed...