Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion marked the first time since the War that a duly accredited representative of Rumania has appeared in Moscow. For eleven years Rumania and Russia have been at odds, in fact ever since Rumania possessed herself in 1918 of the rich Russian province of Bessarabia (pop. 2,600.000). Thereafter the govern-ment at Bucharest refused to recognize the Bolshevist regime; and, for eleven years, Soviet school children have been studying maps on which Bessarabia appears as part of Russia labeled: "Under temporary Rumanian military occupation...
...negotiations between Russia and Rumania have been brought to a successful conclusion and our Minister to Warsaw, M. Davila, will sign the Litvinov protocol at Moscow. . . . Rumania considers the Bessarabian question is finally settled. The Soviet has thus taken a step toward the restoration of normal relations with the Border States...
This statement can only mean that Rumania has received what she considers a satisfactory assurance that Russia-will not in future try to get back Bessarabia. Any other understanding would not, from the Rumanian point of view, leave the Bessa-rabian question "finally settled...
Significance. If Rumania actually did receive a secret assurance that Soviet Russia has renounced her claims to Bessarabia, that was the biggest news in Europe last week. Secrecy may well have been necessary, in order to give the Soviet Government time in which to break gently to Soviet citizens, school children and map makers the news that Bessarabia has been in Rumania for the last eleven years...
...Throne of God is a vast mountain of the Tien Shans in Central Asia where Russia gnaws into China. There on the border Ivan Pavlovitch Tokareff was, for this story, the misogynist commander of the Cossack police garrison. And there his boyish niece Fedossia went to visit him. They hunted in the deserts, chased and captured Kara-Kirghiz bandits, rescued a lecherous Russian fop from the underground Chinese desert city Tourfan, partook in a Kirghiz baiga (rodeo), found gold together, watched the Fouidoutoun of Souidoun dynamite himself, his family and his dwelling in despair over the Chinese revolution, and decided...