Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week everyone forgot that less than six months ago Lord Cushendun was only Rt. Hon. Ronald F. M'Neill, Financial Secretary to the Treasury. He loomed suddenly as a champion of Western Europe against Soviet Russia. The occasion for his Ciceronian oration was the most important meeting thus far held by an august body whose title runs to 22 words: The Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, being a Commission to prepare for a Conference on the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (TIME...
...Commission had assembled amid acute embarrassment. It found itself forced to consider, at last, the breath-taking proposal for "immediate and complete disarmament ... of all nations" which was challengingly submitted to the League, some months ago, by Soviet Russia (TIME...
Perhaps the most important development of the debate last week, was the close lining up of the U. S. with Great Britain in opposition to Soviet Russia. Thus U. S. Representative Hugh Simons Gibson followed Lord Cushendun with a speech in which he went even further toward condemning the Soviet proposal and roundly advised that the Commission waste no more time upon it. Meanwhile the German and Turkish representatives had taken the stand that they approved the Soviet proposal "in principle"; but all the Latin nations showed themselves unalterably opposed. As a result, the Commission prepared to put the. Soviet...
...Russia's Pre-War Diplomacy," Professor Karpovich, Sever...
...hearty advocate of the efforts by Americans to attain a style distinct from those of European composers. In pursuit of this aim Mr. Gilbert has written much music based upon negro or Indian themes. His "Comedy Overture" has been played all over this country, in Europe, and even in Russia. His "Indian Sketches" have also been performed by leading American orchestras...