Word: sovietland
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...poisoned the climate of opinion in America that it is difficult to distinguish between the friends and the foes of the democratic tradition. ... It is ironical that although the Communists have captured central posts in the labor movement, American workers by & large have escaped infection by illusions of Sovietland...
Read Franck's "Vagabond in Sovietland" if you would see Russia and Russian conditions with a photographic and unprejudiced eye. The book will not excite you because the author does not try to pack his book with sensational facts, but the book will hold you interested from the very first page to the last line...
HARRY A. FRANCK has written a new book of travel. It is his seventeenth, and will be avidly welcomed by thousands of members of the Franck Fireside Club. This time America's perennial rambler goes tourist for a thirty day excursion among the wonders of Sovietland from Leningrad to Tiflis, from Moscow to Odessa...
Ural Oil? A big new Russian oil field would relieve the shortage of kerosene in Sovietland. It would also give Russia greater bargaining power in international oil meetings. Last week Russian scientists announced not one such new field but three, all strategically located in the Ural mountains, all prodigiously rich. Production from these fields, they said, would free all other Soviet oil for export. Because the revelation came hard upon an international oil parley which collapsed when Russia would not accept offered terms (TIME, June 13) oilmen accepted it with reservations...
...last week came out of Russia. One, Geroid Tanquary Robinson, instructor at Columbia University, arrived in Paris after two years spent in Sovietland. The other, James Hudson Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, reached Warsaw, capital of Poland, after a month spent in investigating conditions under the Bolshevik regime. Both said much...