Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigation in Washington found much truth in the story. Russian agents have talked with Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Ltd., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. and New York Shipbuilding Corp. The State and Navy Departments have been approached for consent to the plan. Because Russia is not a belligerent in any war, the State Department would be forced to grant licenses, the Navy Department's only objections being that they would not allow the shipping abroad of 16-in. guns, a U. S. specialty, nor may Navy proving grounds be used to test the quality of guns or armor plate...
...basis of popular opportunity Soviet Russia takes the lead in democratic government today. Not on the standard of the comfortable peasant of the United States are Russian workers well off, declared the lecturer, but in contrast to the sharecropper in Arkansas they have a "richer, fuller life; they have hope...
...point the story is told against a background of the "strange, mystifying events" related in General Graves's America's Siberian Adventure. President Wilson's instructions were specific and General Graves stuck to them: to protect Allied munitions stores against German seizure, not to interfere in Russian internal affairs. The British and Japanese took a different view, supported the White Russian armies openly, laid down a barrage of vilification against the U. S. for not joining...
...them against his own men. But what hurt most was to read in the screaming newspapers from home that all of them, including General Graves, were Bolsheviks to a man. On a railway platform Alfred saw his big, good-natured brother killed in cold blood by a White Russian colonel...
...kept his mouth shut after a call from an agent of the Department of Justice. His girl had married a wealthy logging operator's son from Seattle, but now she suggested that if he would get a job in Russia she would go with him. Alfred declined. One Russian exile was enough. Meanwhile, even though the bottom had dropped out of his world, where there was any democracy left, there was hope...