Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fourth, and most important reason, I believed that you didn't represent the Russian masses?the workers and peasants. I have lived always in the water-tight compartment of the conspirator. I knew nothing of the feelings of the Russian masses. But I thought that they were against you; and so I, who have given my life to their service, set myself against you also...
...whom I have no fear, that I recognize unconditionally your right to govern Russia. I ask not your mercy. I ask you only to let your revolutionary conscience judge a man who has never sought anything for himself, who has devoted his whole life to the cause of the Russian people. But I add this: Before coming here to say that I recognize you, I have gone through worse suffering than the utmost...
...Boris A. Bakhmetev, onetime Russian (Kerensky) envoy to the U. S., hoped and believed that the future would link the U. S., England and Russia "in a belt of well-meaning Democracies encircling the globe." Others present, both anti-and proSoviet, agreed with him on this indefinite prediction. Colonel William N. Haskell, U. S. Russian Relief head, a second time urged a Russo-U. S. conclave...
...declared the figures "quite impossible." Dr. Harry A. Garfield, host of the Institute, also deprecated, suggested Father Walsh had meant to include all those killed in riots, street skirmishes and the like. Father Walsh stuck to his story, however, and received support from Sir Bernard Pares, English editor. The Russian discussion ended on a note of extreme condemnation of all things Soviet, fiery John Spargo, U. S. platform-socialist, joining...
Boston, the Hub, has made another revolution. Serge Koussevitzky, famed Russian conductor, a prophet of the new, a patron of the unknown, will direct the Boston Symphony this Winter. Last season it was Pierre Monteux, volcanic, sensational, whose introduction of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps was a dramatic event. Now comes a man whom they heralded in Moscow with bombs and cheers and acclaimed in Paris with appreciation even more explosive. What will he do? Great words thunder in the index...