Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of State Hughes in refusing to recognize the R. S. F. S. R. (Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republics) did so on the grounds that the Russian Government was seeking the overthrow of our Government. As an evidence of this he published instructions issued by Zinoview on behalf of the Third Internationale and then to couple the Third Internationale and the Soviet Government he published extracts of an editorial from Izvestia (Information) organ of the Russian Government...
...Russian Charges: Tchicherin, Soviet Foreign Minister, declared the Hughes documents to be unmitigated forgeries. Steklov, author of the editorial, claimed that his words had been misrepresented by the choice of unfair passages and by the addition of matter not in the original, "a conscious forgery...
...asserted that the editorial in question was not conclusive evidence. They pointed out that the Third Internationale is a body with membership from over 50 nations, although its seat is in Moscow, and that even if it be chiefly supported by the Communist Party, that Party is not the Russian Government. Mr. Borah went on to point out that neither Lenin nor Trotsky attended the meeting of the Third Internationale held immediately after the Izvestia, editorial was published...
...Nestledown," in Vermont. He said: "No one who has carefully observed the tortuous course of the Soviet regime in Russia, with respect to both its foreign policies and domestic affairs, can entertain any sensible doubt that Secretary Hughes is entirely correct in his contention that the Soviet Government, the Russian Communist (Bolshevist) Party and the Communist (or Third) Internationale are in reality three phases of one movement. The interlocking directorates of the three, together with the spiritual identity manifested by an unbroken and unfaltering unison of avowal and of practice, conclusively prove that the interrelationship is not casual or accidental...
...been calculated that five dollars will buy in Europe any one of the following items: daily food for 100 students, 40 textbooks, a year's tuition for two students, or a Russian professor's salary for two months...