Word: sovietism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...STIMSON NOTE TO THE SOVIET UNION WAS A WAR NOTE
...Soviet Russia has staged one major punitive raid into one Chinese province (Manchuria) and then withdrawn all her troops (TIME...
...Comrade Litvinov's real reply to Statesman Stimson came not by note, but in a gala speech before the Soviet central executive committee, to which he invited the whole Moscow diplomatic corps. Such a chance to make game of Messrs. Hoover and Stimson, whose Gibson had humiliated him last spring, might not soon come again, and Comrade Litvinov made the most of it. Stomachs quaked with mirth as he told in droll fashion how Statesman Stimson had called on all the 53 Kellogg Treaty nations to second his note, and concluded amid guffaws: ''I have just received...
...genuine desire for peace [on the part of Mr. Stimson] might have prompted him [to act] much earlier, even the first week after the Chinese broke the letter and the spirit of the Kellogg Pact by violent and unauthorized seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway and arbitrary measures against Soviet citizens" (TIME, July...
...north they suffered a supreme humiliation. Governor General Chang Hsueh-Liang of Manchuria Province capitulated through his emissaries at Nikolsk-Ussiriisk, Siberia, to the emissaries of Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maximovich Litvinov. Cowed by the Red Army's raid into Manchuria three weeks ago, Governor General Chang humbly agreed that the Chinese Eastern Railway shall again be placed under the management of Soviet citizens, as it was before China booted out the Reds last summer (TIME, July 22). In return the Soviet Government agreed to cease propagandizing in Manchuria, but no Chinaman believed that this promise will...