Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Relations of the Entente with Russia and the Great Powers...
...Frances Marion Miller, of New York; Hildreth Scott, of Richmond; Hope Iselin, of New York; Mrs. Reginald Foster, of Boston, and Mrs. Christopher La Farge, both of whom are stepdaughters of Speaker Gillett of the House of Representatives; Mrs. George T. Marye, wife of the onetime American Ambassador to Russia; Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, of New York...
...Conference proper has been delayed for a whole month in order to permit the bondholders to come to terms with the Soviet representatives. As an accord has apparently not been reached, British recognition of Russia still remains as much of a farce as ever...
Under the terms of the Treaty of Portsmouth, signed at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1905, Russia ceded a southern portion of the island to Japan. That was part of the price paid by Russia for losing the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). Now Sakhalin, or Karafuto, is rich in alluvial gold and coal deposits. Its surface is covered by vast forests of larch and fir trees. Large tracts of land arc fit for pasturage and agriculture, and there is oil, as Oil Shah Harry F. Sinclair could testify. The climatic conditions are on the whole excellent, and are comparable...
This is a sketch of the reasons which inspire the Japanese Foreign Office to obtain from Russia the northern half of the island known as Sakhalin and Karafuto. And in return for such apparent magnanimity, Japan is willing to cancel Russia's political debt* to her and joyfully accord her de jure recognition...