Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, the Council of the League of Nations continued its session. Among the subjects discussed: slavery, traffic in arms, opium, Russian refugees...
...Russian Refugees. An extensive report on Russian Refugees was adopted by the Council with resolutions asking all the Governments to continue to support Dr. Nansen, head of the League movement in support of refugees. The report itself expressed thanks to the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Manhattan for help in establishing a scientific institute for the Russian exiles in Berlin; thanked the French Government for encouraging Russian immigration; stated that the High Commission is taking energetic steps to obtain the evacutaion to the U. S. of several hundred thousand refugees in Poland, Rumania, Constantinople. "Unfortunately," the report added, "the High...
...this is hardly news. Likewise his account of the German occupation of the Ukraine, and of the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia is good but not novel; and the same may be said for his quite spirited narrative of the diplomatic and propagandist duel that led to the Anglo-Russian Agreement of 1921. On the other hand there are astonishing gaps and omissions. He is practically silent on topics such as the Third International and its relation to foreign propaganda, the execution of the Czar, the debasement of the currency, Lenin's "strategic retreat" towards capitalism in 1921, and the position...
...unfortunately is the author's favorite method. Worse yet, he himself is guilty of statements almost as inaccurate as those he seeks to disprove. To cite two examples: his reference to the Sisson Documents as forged papers cannot be accepted without very grave qualifications, and his charge that the Russian Division of the State Department was allowed to become a centre for Czarist supporters and for Czarist intrigue is quite without foundation in fact...
...materials he has been neither critical nor scholarly. As a summary of current information upon Soviet Russia his book may be of some use to the general public; as a record of Professor Ross's opinions it may be interesting to his pupils; but to the student of contemporary Russian history it will be of little help. Even to the confirmed apologist for Soviet Russia it will bring little of real comfort--its "proofs" are not convincing and its inaccuracies are too many. But it will probably be widely quoted...