Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Travelers reaching Moscow from the Far East via the Trans-Siberian report trains of "Kirov Exiles" moving eastward under armed guard...
...Ambassador was on horseback, teaching Bolsheviks to play polo. With experienced, hard-driving Counselor of Embassy John Wiley plugging at his side. Ambassador Bullitt stormed the Kremlin again & again on the issues of credits and debts. Some four months ago Ambassador Bullitt left Moscow by way of the Trans-Siberian Railway, flew extensively up & down China and arrived late last year in Washington where last week he was advising the President...
...addition to his work here, where he was intimately connected with the Peabody Museum as Curator of Ethnology, Mr. Dixon made several expeditions to Mongolia and Siberia. He made valuable contributions to the knowledge of the physiography and geological formation of Northern Asia and established reciprocal relations between Siberian Museums and similar institutions in the United States in 1901, which have resulted in much valuable information concerning Mongolia...
From Novosibirsk last week came the usual bloody item of Soviet grain news, an item so commonplace as to excite no Russian remark. Because the collective farm "Red Front" raised only 40% of its State-scheduled grain quota, the Western Siberian Circuit Court sentenced four of the collective's officials to be shot...
...western Pacific areas. While China was rent with civil dissension and the world was engaged in the fatal European struggle, Japan attempted to force upon the Chinese a treaty which would have impaired their territorial and political integrity. only American threats of armed hostility thwarted Nipponese ambition. Her Siberian expedition, her reluctance to agree to the Washington treaty, her refusal to cooperate in Pacific financial and teriff policies, all give evidence of a political state of mind fatal to Pacific stability. Flouting all the nations of the earth by breaking all previous treaties, she seized Manchuria from a recumbent China...