Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stiff Protest. Goaded by Tory ire, the Baldwin Government addressed a stiff protest to the authorities at Moscow last week complaining that the Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement of 1921 had been violated by the Soviet Government in despatching funds to the support of the British "general strike" (TIME, May 10 et seq.). No mention was made of funds now passing from Moscow to London? though £30,000 was thus added to the coal strikers' war chest last week?because the "coal strike" had not yet been officially declared "subversive" (as was the "general strike" but still retained the character...
...Cook, who once described himself as a humble disciple of Lenine, has recently thanked God for Russia and has explained that the sum of £400,000 had been received from their comrades in the Russian mines in order to support the dependents of their English colleagues in a moment of adversity. It is indeed a touching reflection that the miners of Russia are prepared to work ten hours a day in order that their British colleagues may not have to work eight...
...moneys received by the British miners do not come from the Russian miners, but officially from the Soviet Government, whose intentions, openly avowed, are to foment revolution...
What would the opera be? Dame Nellie held long council with her memories. La Bohème was good. It stood for a hundred triumphs, for gay, gay Monte Carlo and her début there a quarter of a century ago, for Russian Grand Dukes and Princesses, the warm scent of orange blossoms, tiny balls spinning in a great casino, the great Caruso who was her Rodolfo, Tosti making great goggle eyes from the front row. It, too, had been the first Covent Garden performance after the War, when a shabby tweed audience replaced the pompous black...
Internationalism. There had been growth in the internationalism of higher education. Not only were European educators allegedly* more conscious of the merit of U. S. universities, but foundations and student exchange agencies had brought more foreign students to U. S. colleges.? The Russian Student Fund, Inc. (Manhattan) reported the impending graduation of 44 onetime refugees. The Commonwealth Foundation for British graduate students and the Davison scholarships for British undergraduates were more than ever popular. Conversely, exchange of students with German universities was rearranged for the first time since the War. The first scholarships for U. S. students at Japanese...