Word: sovietland
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...Peking, Mr. C. T. Wang, Chinese Christian statesman, was commissioned to negotiate with a representative of Sovietland about full recognition by China of the Soviet Government and other questions. Wang failed. The reason for his failure is one of those diplomatic unmentionables...
Sweden and Danzing also signed recognition agreements with Sovietland...
Another despatch from Sovietland corroborated the fact that Trotsky had retired to his country palace, but authoritatively stated that he had been ordered by doctors to rest for two months, owing to "weakness of both body and spirit, the result of a mysterious malady developing during the past three months, whose marked symptom was a wasting, intermittent fever." This despatch inferred that the rumors in Russia about Trotsky were more numerous than those received by the outside world, and that the political dispute of which Trotsky is the center, was "so hot as to mislead some of the Communists themselves...
...first official statement of President Coolidge's attitude toward Russia came in an announcement from the White House. Sovietland will not receive diplomatic recognition until it has established " standard government and rules of international relationship satisfactory to the American people." In other words, there will be no change of policy on the part of the Administration...