Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They come to hear and take part in discussions of international affairs. For this purpose " round tables " are held where discussion is carried on under leaders in the mornings. There are, besides, regular lectures later in the day. Among the speakers this year are Boris A. Bakhmetev, who was Russian Ambassador to Washington under the Kerensky regime; Count Harry Kessler, former German Ambassador to Poland; Sir Edward Grigg, from England; Canon Ernest Dinmet, from Paris; Viscount Bir-former Lord Chancellor of England; General Tasker H. Bliss; Dr. Estanislas Severo Zeballos, former Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs...
...Moscow Soviet, issued an order prohibiting further confiscation of synagogues. Many of the Soviet leaders are of Jewish blood, but most have abandoned the Jewish faith.' Kamenev's lenience to the Synagogue is only in line with a recent circular of the President of the Russian Trade Union Congress urging all union organizations to show "tact" in fighting the Christian Church...
Negotiations (for Japanese recognition of Soviet Russia) between the Japanese Government and the Russian A. A. Joffe, reached an impasse, with the refusal of Joffe to admit Russian responsibility for the Nikolaievsk massacre or to concede special rights to the Japanese in North Sakhalin...
...Western public opinion and playing for time, because the paramount issue has no relation to the ostensible points of variance. For both countries the condition of China, now approaching "a geographical expression," is the paramount interest. When the trifling disputes directly treated are out of the way, Japanese and Russian influence can be made predominant in Northern and Eastern China, a condition pointing directly to a forward policy by the two Powers against European Far Eastern possessions. Singapore, a base which the British are now rapidly developing to guard the right flank of the Indian Empire, would thus come...
Serge Voronoff, the Russian surgeon of Paris who leaped into notoriety about three years ago with his gland transplantation experiments, came into his own at the International Congress of Surgeons in London last week, when 700 of the world's leading surgeons applauded the success of his work in the " rejuvenation " of old men. The sensational claims and misleading publicity which attend the work of seekers after the elixir of youth have obscured Voronoff's careful experimental basis and have made him suspect with conservative scientific men. But professional opinion is growing more lenient as increasing numbers of surgeons...