Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discussion was adjourned. The Treaty is distasteful* to all parties. The Straits Convention, an annex to the Treaty, leaves Constantinople defenseless. The two powers most interested are Russia and Great Britain. Defense of minorities in Turkey will probably occupy the attention of the House in any further debate...
...instead of turning Turkey bag and baggage out of Europe. It signified the complete shipwreck of Lloyd George's five years' nursing of Greek ambitions. Flouting the conservative policy of seven decades, it exposed Turkey to intrigue and direct military pressure from Britain's perennial foe, Russia. It excluded France, Italy and Great Britain from exploitation of the spoils of war. It practically abandoned all pretence on the part of the Great Powers to protect the Christians in Turkey, cardinal point of Gladstone's eastern policy. The terms of the Straits Convention reduced British opportunities...
...first victims of the curious cult that sprang up after the recent death of Nikolai Lenin was the name of the former capital of Russia. The city built 200-odd years ago by Peter the Great on the banks of the Neva flourished under the name of St. Petersburg. But the War taught us that St. Petersburg was a naughty German way of saying what the Russians, who were then our brave and gallant Allies, called Petrograd. So Petrograd it became. Maps were being changed so much that cartographers did not object...
...Russia's own literature did little to disped the haze of unreality which hung about the nation. The great novelists painted with minor tones of same colors in which the war correspondents revel; only recently, has anything resmbling a true photograph been discoverable,--queerly enough in the literature of the Revolution...
...inevitable that American ideas of Russia should be distorted and highly colored by sensational stories. Even in peace times, the huge expanse, with its innumerable villages and comparatively few large towns, remained an unsolved mystery to most of the few people who troubled to visit it. And when the war out most of the communications, and only the picturesque accounts of the war reporters were forth-coming, the generally lurid impression was not modified. One was taught in school that Russia was composed of a very large number of peasants who slept on the stove and consumed a uniquely potent...