Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most important point to settle, however, is that of granting credit to Russia, for it is clear that the Soviet Government will not be able to pay anything, if payment is required, for some years. British bankers and business men, in memoranda and letters to Premier MacDonald, have said that no money could be sent to Russia unless private debts (amounting to nearly $2,000,000,000) and property are fully recognized, and a permanent civil code drawn up and the courts made independent of the Government...
...conference was called by Premier MacDonald after de jure recognition had been granted to Russia (TiME, April...
...French Army that he wrote a book about it, this man was reported in the Écho de Paris to have said: "Citoyens! The bloc National is the cause of all our national calamities. ... I am French, but I am European. . . . Liberty, fraternity, socialism! . . . Peace with Soviet Russia! . . . Above all peace with republican and pacific Germany who is also democratic and sincere. . . . Peace, peace at all costs...
This Communist activity was said to be financed from Russia and evidence to this effect was reputed to be in the hands of the Government...
...President of the Council of Commissars, said: "There are only two possible explanations of the incident-either the Prussian State Police acted clumsily, without authority of the German Government, or the latter has deliberately shown the utmost unwisdom in committing a breach of the friendly and neighborly relations between Russia and Germany...