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Another minor point in the deliberations hinges on the question of Chesham House, Tsarist London Embassy. At present M. Sabline, member of the Embassy staff before Bolshevik days, occupies the house and, "recognizing that he is not in Moscow," refuses to budge. M. Rakovsky claimed the Embassy for Sovietland and thus evinces a desire to establish the Soviet regime as lawful heir to that of the Tsars. The British Government favors M. Rakovsky's contention, but the whole matter was exciting a good 'deal of comment and was further complicated by obscure legal points...
...Russian claim is based upon the damage wrought by British support of Koltchak, Yudenitch and Denikin in their campaigns against Sovietland...
...week goes by but Soviet War Lord Léeon Trotsky belches forth damnation upon the world or thrills great Moscow audiences with his prophecies of the past, present and future greatness of Sovietland in general and the Red Army and Navy in particular...
...British Government has now recognized Sovietland, and in London, Bolshies and Laborites are in daily con-ference?when the Soviet delegates can be induced to give up seeing London from the bus-tops?trying to straighten out their economic and financial rela- tions...
...reply to Senator de Monzie who wished to know if France could not now resume commercial relations with Sovietland, Premier Poincaré said that France's attitude to Russia was the same as that...