Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passing, it should be noted that France is now the master of Europe and as such is feared. In short, she controls most of the Continental coal and iron supply; she has the largest army and air force in the world, with the possible exception of Russia. A navy is not a primary need of France. It is thus evident that France's supremacy invited a change in the Balance of Power. To summarize, Britain says to France: "Get out of the Ruhr or we will form an alliance with Germany." These words are the funeral oration...
...began to speak?earnestly but not heatedly. This " scurrilous sheet," he said, was printed on good paper and in excellent style?showing no expense had been spared. The communists who circulated it at night were "industrial buzzards." William Z. Foster was behind them, working in conjunction with Soviet Russia. Among those who were spreading the propaganda were Joseph Manly (son-in-law of Foster), his wife and G. P. McCarthy...
...safeguard in Balkanized Europe. The loan to Yugo-Slavia not only stimulates the Little Entente, but helps French trade coming from the Near and Middle East. The loan to Poland contained a definite sub rosa military understanding that Poland was to assist France in case of attack by either Russia or Germany; or, in other words, she was to act the part of Belgium in North-Eastern Europe...
...most conflicting rumors in regard to the religious situation in Russia agree on this: the Patriarch Tikhon, of Moscow, was unfrocked by the recent " All-Russian " council of the Greek Orthodox Church. The council was captured by radicals, and the Patriarch Tikhon, who was in a Soviet prison at the time, was unfrocked without a hearing. No man was put in his place, the church radicals believing in a more democratic form of church government. Tikhon, according to one report, was poisoned in prison. More recent reports assert that he has made his peace with the Soviet Government, and that...
Canada particularly is becoming a bigger competitor of America in the world wheat markets; India's surplus is estimated at 90,000,000 bushels, compared with only 9,000,000 last year; the European countries, even including Russia, are showing greater production. The American Farm Bureau Federation estimates the American wheat crop this year at 817,000,000 in addition to a carry-over from the last crop of about 140,000,000 bushels, or almost a billion bushels all told. Our home consumption, including seed wheat, and our exports for the coming year are estimated by the same...