Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vodka, last week, despite the fact that, for the first time since the War, the wine and spirit list of the House of Commons bars was revised to include "Finest Russian Liqueur Vodka . . . is. 6d" [36?]. Wags insisted that this innovation was for the benefit of the new Soviet Ambassador, expected soon in London (see above...
...Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, wife of the Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, is English, forthright, tart-tongued. She has never met President Herbert Hoover nor Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. But at Geneva last spring she beheld the dapper gentleman they sent to tell the League of Nations and the world for the first time about the President's disarmament plans-Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium...
...Hoover plan-which Mr. Gibson had in his pocket-paralleled almost exactly in its two most important aspects the Litvinov scheme,* though no one present knew that then except Mr. Gibson. Plan in pocket, he let Litvinov talk, declined to comment in open meeting, told correspondents privately that the Soviet scheme was not worthy of comment or consideration, suggested that Comrade Litvinov had presented it in bad faith...
...week, that a ship had just cleared from New York, bearing to the Chinese Government the second consignment of a $1,000,000 order for battle planes of the Vought Corsair type used by the U. S. Navy, built at Long Island City. Soon these planes might be bombing Soviet villages near the Sino-Russian frontier. Naturally the U. S. State Department was not responsible for the shipment, but it may have prejudiced Comrade Litvinov as he ruffled his copy of Statesman Stimson's note, pondered its powerful conclusion...
Unfriendly Act? As was later admitted to Washington correspondents, the Stimson notes were drafted when their author did not know whether to believe conflicting reports that China and Russia were even then patching up their differences at a peace parley near Vladivostok. Other reports convinced Mr. Stimson that Soviet planes were bombing Chinese villages. He meant well, meant to stop any possibility of slaughter. But to Comrade Litvinov, who knew from his direct wire to the peace parley that China was yielding and Russia winning peace on her own terms, the U. S. note seemed at best an intrusion...