Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed revolutionary statesman Dr. Sun Yatsen, who founded the Cantonese Government (1917) as a rival to Peking, but died in Peking (1925) before the recent Cantonese conquest of the whole southern half of China. With Widow Sun Yat-sen a devout widow, traveled the brilliant and astute Soviet Russian agent Michael Borodin. M. Borodin has been the intermediary between Moscow and Canton since before the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen. One of his few false moves was to keep the Cantonese waiting for weeks while a ceremonial coffin was being brought from Moscow for the dead Dr. Sun. When...
Cantonese Bolshevism. How Bolshevistic is Chiang Kaishek? Dr. Sun sent him to Moscow in 1922, and there he studied for a few months, bringing back with him Russian military experts who became instructors at Whampoa. Chiang has taken what Russian gold and guns he could get, but it should be noted that he could get no others. He has said: "We can and will use men and money from any nation sympathetic to us. . . . Russia, in general, has treated China better than the other nations...
...frail old lady rides sometimes about Copenhagen in a limousine that seems far from new. When her motor halts at the Palace of her nephew King Christian X she sits quite still. Her footman, kindliest of Russian servitors, hastens to open the door and helps her to descend. To him she is, will always be, "Matoushka Tsaritsa," ¹beloved wife of the "Little Father" Alexander III and mother of the last Romanov Emperor, Nicholas II. Surely the memories of this once very great lady are stranger, more glamorous, than any fairy-tale by her Danish countryman Hans Christian Andersen...
...Ivan Manghikian, self-styled "American shoemaker" arrived at Paris recently from Moscow with a testimonial reading as follows: "General Antremick is proud to attest that Executioner Manghikian, attached to the Russian Armies, has to my knowledge rendered justice 364 times...
Died. Leonid Krassin, 56, Russian Soviet Chargé d'Affaires ("Ambassador") at London; in London, of pernicious anemia, after numerous blood transfusions had failed to save his life. "The Bourgeois Bolshevik," he enjoyed the confidence of Lenin and Trotsky although he held much more moderate views than theirs. He negotiated most of the commercial treaty on which Soviet commerce rests today. He was rec ognized as Ambassador at Berlin and Paris, but although he was accredited in London as an Ambassador the British Government never recognized him as anything but a chargé d'affaires. Six thousand British...