Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days ago on the platform of a railway station in Warsaw, a Russian monarchist student assassinated M. Voikoff, the Soviet Minister to Poland. The Polish Minister at Moscow was immediately instructed to express to the Soviet government Poland's deep regret; President Moseicki of Poland sent a message of like effect to President Kalinin of the Soviet; the Polish foreign minister forwarded a similar communication to the Soviet Foreign Office. The Polish government seemed to have done all that was reasonably possible. But the matter was not allowed to drop by the Soviet officials, and a sharp protest was returned...
...better amity. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo is recalled, and the prospect of war, if not imminent, seems at least possible. The Soviet is not enjoying success, the diplomatic rupture with England and the difficulties in the Far East have not made matters easy for the Russian government, and reports from Moscow hint that popular feeling regards the assassination as part of a concerted campaign against the Soviet...
...event seems to have been peculiarly unfortunate for the Russian government which seems to be placed between the Scylla of popular criticism at home and the Gharibdis of general disfavor abroad. To let the matter drop would probably not be satisfactory to those in Russia who feel that communism is being threatened. To press it would probably be to incur the hostility of the other nations who would inevitably regard the action as totally unwarranted. It is possible that the severity already threatened is no more than a beau geste for the benefit of Russian opinion, and that further action...
...Scotland Yard when its operatives raided Arcos House (TIME, May 23, 30), in which were the premises of the Soviet Trade Delegation which came to London under the Trade Agreement of 1921, during the Lloyd George Ministry. For perhaps an hour the Premier built up his thesis that the Russian Trade Delegation and also the Soviet Embassy have functioned as directing agencies for Communist propaganda, subversion and espionage. The evidence supporting this thesis was a sheaf of telegrams and letters which were stated rather than proved to have passed between the Soviet Trade Delegation and the Soviet Government. Because...
...random example of what the White Book contains, observers noted a letter telling how down-and-out British subjects have been trained as Communist agitators while being given employment as sailors on Russian merchant ships. The Soviet agent in charge of this subversive activity told in early letters how "choice of the men was carefully made, preference being given to Negroes, Hindus and other oppressed nationals." In later correspondence these "oppressed nationals" were declared to have turned out to be "lazy swine . . . the refuse of the Labor Party . . . slackers and bad workers who drank or left the ships...