Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian industrial region of the Don and charged with "counter revolutionary sabotage." Only two of these men have been released, despite the repeated protests of the German Government...
With an air of crying "Boo!" Sir William revealed that Scotland Yard had just rounded up a gang of Irish smugglers of arms, in London, and had traced banknotes found in their possession to "a Russian bank in this country...
When the House received this revelation with equanimity, Sir William nursed his suckling Scare and took it before a Conservative rally at Leamington, where he cried: "We are asked to put up with the subsidizing of crime by a Russian bank in this country. . . . There is a direct chain from the Russian bank to Communist agitators in all the great cities of this land. ... I have the most complete evidence...
Observers recalled that Stalin, though phenomenally astute in Russian matters, has never visited Europe, speaks neither English, French nor German, and is at a disadvantage when he attempts to estimate mentality and machinations of Occidental Powers...
Both to harry Standard Oil on the flank and to boom up Royal Dutch-Shell goodwill throughout the British and Dutch possessions, Sir Henri has been shouting harsh things about Russian petroleum. That oil comes from wells once owned in part by British investors but now confiscated by the Soviet. Standard Oil has been buying it to sell in the East, where it has few wells, but where Royal Dutch-Shell has many. It is more profitable to Standard Oil to ship petroleum from Russia to India than from California to India. Sir Henri, therefore, has been crying loudly that...