Word: siberias
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Lost from sight in deepest Siberia for three weeks, Henry Wallace flew into Tihwa in a high wind of publicity...
...first Minister to Canada, later sent him to London to replace Ivan Maisky as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. To Moscow went Russian-speaking Leolyn Dana Wilgress, one of Ottawa's ablest civil servants. While on Canada's Economic Mission to Siberia, Wilgress married a Russian, fitted himself to meet Russians on their own terms...
...Time to Laugh. Gayn's mother was a thwarted opera singer from Siberia. His playmates were Russians, Chinese and Germans. When Gayn was 14 he went to a Soviet school in Vladivostok, where his training included work in machine shops and factories. "We are too busy to laugh," shouted a Communist orator. In 1929, after a short stay in a Shanghai academy, Gayn's parents sent...
...Czar, but when the Bolsheviks took Russia out of World War I the U.S. sent "protective" U.S. forces to Archangel and Vladivostok. The Bolsheviks considered this part of a general capitalist plot against the "Workers' Fatherland," though the presence of U.S. troops kept Japan from biting off eastern Siberia...
...been labeled generally as a New Dealer, occasionally as a trial balloon floater, and specifically by Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull as a liar.* Columnist Fisher is impressed by slim, suave Andrew Russell Pearson's "many overwhelming news beats," but finds on the debit side: Japan would attack Siberia early in 1943; Willkie would take an Administration post; Stalin would visit the U.S.; Russia could not hold out a month (in 1941) against Germany. Frequently sued for libel, involved in many a classic row with officials, Pearson is not held in awesome respect by his colleagues. But few will...