Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ordered not a single drink of vodka, last week, despite the fact that, for the first time since the War, the wine and spirit list of the House of Commons bars was revised to include "Finest Russian Liqueur Vodka . . . is. 6d" [36?]. Wags insisted that this innovation was for the benefit of the new Soviet Ambassador, expected soon in London (see above...
Professor Baxter, writing for a group of laymen whose knowledge of the subject is at best meagre, gives as the reasons of the U. S. not recognizing the Soviet Union, first the failure of the Soviet government to acknowledge the debts of preceding governments, second, the unwillingness of the Russian government to restore or make compensation for confiscated property of American citizens, and third, the alleged participation of the Russian government in propaganda conducted in foreign slates by the Third International. In not exposing these reasons as the shallow mockeries they are, Professor Baxter is guilty of almost criminal negligence...
Kick Out, Kick In. Louder than words the Soviet raids said: "We mean business. China must yield to our demands respecting the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Under the treaty of 1924 we have the right to keep Russian officials on that line. You kicked them off last July. We have demanded ever since that they be reinstated. Our rights date back to Tsarist times, when Russian money built the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria. We are ready to strike again. We have proved that you cannot resist us, even...
Japan the Peacemaker. Almost irrelevant to the real Chinese situation last week were screeching headlines about appeals to President Hoover and the League of Nations by Nationalist Foreign Minister C. T. Wang (Yale, 1911). In his own capital Mr. Wang was credited with having utterly bungled the Chino-Russian imbroglio. The Shanghai Council of the Nationalist Party passed a resolution of censure demanding his resignation, stigmatized him as "a rogue." His one chance lay in shrieking so vociferously about the "red menace" that the great powers would intervene...
...wars, Sir Henri at one time battled, not unsuccessfully, with Standard of New Jersey in its pre-dissolution period. In more recent years he has (despite his non-compromise statement) preferred peace to war, as witness his agreement (in March) with U. S. oil interests concerning the marketing of Russian oil. In April he sat in on an American Petroleum Institute oil restriction program, gave tacit approval to U. S. attempts at oil rationalization. But the restriction program, in its nation-wide aspect at least, fell through, and in August Sir Henri suddenly shocked U. S. oilmen, particularly the Standard...