Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only foreigners with Communist guerrilla forces are a German instructor and a Turkish doctor. "The Chinese generally believed I was a Soviet staff officer!" laughed Agnes Smedley. "I didn't see a single Russian...
...only Jewish, but Russian and Hungarian language papers were suppressed in Rumania last week, but the only anti-Semitic decree of the week was one published by Minister of Public Works George Cuza, son of the even more rabid Minister without Portfolio Alexander Cuza. This will make it an offense for Jews to employ non-Jewish female servants under 40 years...
Next day friends of Miss Okada mourned her as a traitress to Japan, morally dead. The Japanese Government ordered its consul at Alexandrovsk, Russian Sakhalin, to "demand full information." But over their beer in Tokyo hard-to-convince U. S. journalists, suspicious of a publicity hoax, agreed that so far as they knew the lover of Miss Okada had been not Sugimoto but a mildly radical Japanese theatrical producer, Yoshimasa Yoshida. Sure enough, part of their suspicion was confirmed. Japanese dispatches from Sakhalin declared that the lover in the case was indeed Yoshida but still insisted that he and Miss...
...their contemporaries, the surprising thing about the marriage of Prince and Princess Lieven was that it lasted for almost 40 years. Russian Ambassador to England after the Napoleonic wars, Lieven was an upright, punctilious, short-sighted wittol whose portrait makes him look like an aristocratic Andy Gump. Dorothea, his wife, was "the most feared, most flattered, worst hated female politician of her day." Because Dorothea was known to be the mistress of Metternich, and because she was on very intimate terms with the Duke of Wellington, George IV, Tsar Alexander, Lord Castlereagh, many others, cynics assumed that her marriage...
Last week Dorothea was belatedly punished for her sins when 376 pages of her private letters to Metternich were published for the edification of the general public that she despised. She wrote him almost every day for eight years, giving information about English and Russian politics, scandals and her own repeated triumphs, and acting in general as Metternich's spy. She was so powerful that it was said Austria had two ambassadors in London, the official one and Dorothea. Dorothea and Metternich so wangled state affairs that they were able to meet on three occasions, but when Metternich remarried...