Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traffic over the International Bridge between the French and Russian Concessions was stopped. Foreign ships were halted and forced to dock at Japanese wharves; only after four days of the blockade were two British ships finally allowed to come up the Hai River to the Concession docks. While most other Occidentals were comparatively unaffected by the blockade, the 1,500 British civilians of the Concession were stopped, questioned, stripped, manhandled. After a few such instances they kept to the Concession. For a few hours one day British machine-gunners and Japanese soldiers in tanks glowered at each other over sandbag...
...tall-story teller in conversation, Consul Reinhardt used to have breathless U. S. socialites bug-eyed as he described his escape from a Bolshevik prison. Jailed while assisting prisoners during the Russian Revolution, Consul Reinhardt day by day watched Chinese guards lead away some of his companions to be executed, waited for his own turn to come. It never did. Instead "a very beautiful young lady, wrapped in furs" guided Herr Reinhardt and cell mates to two waiting limousines, sped them to a hideout, kept them supplied with food. Later the Consul learned that his rescuer was a Jewish girl...
Actually, Lindbergh, who has seen many a Russian military airplane, is convinced that their performance is inferior, their construction too involved for mass production. He has also had a good look at the German Air Force, and is convinced that Germany has the air supremacy in Europe, will hold it for some years to come. He expressed his opinions privately to friends, including Lord and Lady Astor, and some in the U. S. (like Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames of NACA), But there was never any banquet of the Cliveden Set, and Lindbergh does not think it likely that British foreign...
...Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax were credited to papal efforts, Britain went forward last week with its plans to send Chief of the Central European Bureau of the Foreign Office William Strang to carry its latest message to Moscow in the tiresome seesawing of Anglo-Soviet bargaining. Though Russian vanity was nicked because Prime Minister Chamberlain did not visit the Kremlin in person, observers of practical Diplomat Strang's busy career (companion of Captain Anthony Eden on his 1935 swing through Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Prague; translator for Hitler and Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, Godesberg, Munich; British charge...
Kyra Goritzina was aware of the parallel between her lot and that of the White Russian aristocrats-turned-servants in Tovarich, which she saw in the movies and did not like. The Goritzins had their chance at a Tovarich performance when, working for a consul general in Manhattan, they were told that some "Red Commissars" were coming for lunch. The Goritzins took that day off, went to the movies...