Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bunker, who, in his career as an actor, has always played in farcical roles, went on to compare amateur and professional acting. In recalling the time when he played in the first Harvard Dramatic Club presentation "The Land of Promise," in which he took the part of a starving Russian, he said: "As I look back at that time when I was still a Freshman, I realize that my natural tendency was to overact, to keep moving constantly, thus detracting from my own effectiveness as well as that of others. This overacting, as compared with the repressed playing which...
...reason is that during the Lausanne Conference of 1923 (at Lausanne, Switzerland) the Russian representative, M. Vaslav Vorovsky, was assassinated. His alleged assassin was acquitted by a Swiss Court. For four years the Swiss Government has refused the kind of apology demanded by the Soviet Government. Ergo, no Soviet "observers" have come to League Conferences...
...impeach the whole Nationalist Cabinet at Hankow on the ground that it is "Red," sparing only Foreign Minister Chen. Him they dubbed "misguided but loyal to Nationalism." C This keen blow by Chiang Kai-shek lopped off the Communist faction of Chinese Nationalism which has fattened at Hankow on Russian support. Overnight the Russian "adviser" to the Nationalist Government, Michael Borodin, went into hiding, "vanished." Then the seven principal district "generals" administering Nationalist territory pledged allegiance to Chiang Kaishek, declaring him the true political descendant of the late, revered Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic." Only three district...
This act was, of course, in flagrant violation of diplomatic usage. Chang, however, knew that it would be condoned if not approved by non-Reds throughout the world. He was right. Immediately thereafter the Municipal Council of Occidentals who administer the international city at Shanghai employed "White Russian" mercenary soldiers to picket the Soviet Consulate and search all who left or entered. This, too, was in contravention of international usage., but in most non-Red countries was condoned if not approved. It was expected that translations of the documents seized from the Reds at Peking and Shanghai would amply justify...
...first Labour Prime Minister, pay his respect to the King of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and Emperor of India as dutifully as ever did Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Wellington, or Lord North. It probably made Soviet ministers throw bombs, clench their teeth, bristle their whiskers and evince other characteristically Russian signs of displeasure. It reassured conservative England; at least radical viewpoints did not interfere with good taste...