Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Onetime Prime Minister Lloyd George, stung by the revelations in the Wilson diary, made haste to reply by publishing "reluctantly" two letters addressed to him by Sir Henry Wilson...
...veteran of Fleet Street (which in London parlance is synonymous for journalism), was one of the guests of honor. As he strode into the low, planked ceilinged room in which a table was set for 50, he noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide, on which the Cheshire Cheese abuts...
...Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, born Dutch, naturalized Briton, Director General of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., delivered himself in Manhattan last week of a biting criticism of the Soviet regime, particularly regarding the condition of the Russian oil fields and their administration...
...Sir Henri then went on to state that before the War owners could produce crude oil on an average of 15 kopeks a pood, after paying 20% taxes on profits, 5 to 45% royalties and higher wages for workmen. Now, he continued, the production of crude oil costs double, despite the confiscation of property, no taxation or royalties, lower wages to workmen and lack of strikes, which hitherto were frequent...
Next day Saul G. Bron, Chairman of the Amtorg Trading Corp., a Bolshevik concern trading in the U. S., declared: "Sir Henri Deterding regards the approaching tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the Soviet Government in Russia as the proper time to make still another prediction that the Soviet Union is headed toward disaster. No one taking note of Deterding's propaganda can escape the conviction that this is really the most inappropriate moment to make such a prediction...