Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After defending the Administration's policy he set about to carry out his promise to Senator Borah and other advocates of Russian recognition that there should be an investigation. The Foreign Relations Committee formally authorized an inquiry as to: 1) What, if any, revolutionary propaganda is carried out in this country with the abettance of the Russian Government? 2) Is diplomatic recognition of the Russian Government now timely? And then it devolved on Mr. Lodge himself to name the subcommittee which should make the investigation...
...peace on "an understanding of humane" men and women, "who have no cause for war, no cause for enmity"; to use the League of Nations "without reserve as the main instrument of securing international justice"; to recognize Russia and so end "the pompous folly of standing aloof from the Russian Government"; to encourage trade "from the coasts of Japan to the coasts of Ireland"; to deal with unemployment by creating a Labor Department "staffed by men and women of labor experience; experience, aye, and knowledge, the spirit, insight and capacity to put themselves in the shoes of the unemployed...
...recognition of Grand Duke Cyril, son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, as heir to the Imperial Russian Throne by a family council in Paris (TIME, Dec. 10), was disputed in conclave by Tsarist emigrés in London...
Supporters of Prince Wizamosky declared that he would be more acceptable to the Russian people than would Grand Duke Cyril, whose vague land policy would not be acceptable to the peasants and whose family name (Romanov) is anathema to them. Furthermore, it was alleged that Prince Wizamosky would be willing to embrace the good reforms that were introduced into Russia by the Kerensky régime...
...Russia christenings, marriages and death ceremonies occur, are celebrated and mourned without the aid of the Church. Bolshevism has given a peculiar tinge to the first ceremony. Among Russian names are given: Vladimir Ilich (after Lenin whose real name is V. I. Ulianov-Lenin) ; Klara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg (after two leading women Bolsheviki) ; Jaurès (after a French Communist, assassinated in 1914) ; Rem, meaning "revolution, electrification and meer (peace)"; Nep, meaning New Economic Policy; and some others...