Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Relations. In conclusion both Ivy Lee and Dorothy Thompson point out that the surprising sequel to Great Britain's diplomatic break with Soviet Russia (TIME, May 23) has been that London buys more from Russia and sells less than before, thus adversely affecting the Empire's trade balance...
Meanwhile the U. S., which has never recognized Soviet Russia, has sold to her since 1923 some $262,000,000 more goods than the U. S. has bought from Russia. Shrewd Ivy Lee observes that so long as the balance continues favorable to the U. S. he can see no validity in "the suggestion that in buying Russian goods we are providing funds for [Russian] propaganda activities in the United States. . . . My impression [is] that the so-called Bolshevik propaganda is, in itself, perfectly futile...
...third report on Russia, set down emotionally rather than factually by famed Novelist Theodore Dreiser, is now appearing in news organs adherent to the North American Newspaper Alliance. Thus far the emotional genius of Novelist Dreiser has led him into such self-contradictions as are contained in the following statements: 1) "I believe that in the main the Russian people are satisfied with the Soviet mechanism, and that they think it is perfecting itself daily," but 2) "There is a dictatorship of the Communist Party. ... All over Russia you find a kind of terror of the Communists, and what they...
Another contradiction: 1) "In Russia . . . where are the rich? There are none. And where the groveling, feverish poor? Gone also. . . . You cannot feel want here any more than you can feel material luxury, they are not," but 2) "Prices of everything were outrageously high, salaries could not compare with what things cost and there was never enough of anything, neither food nor entertainment, nor what you would...
...PRESENT-DAY RUSSIA-Macmillan...