Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany ought to support Great Britain in her severance of relations with Russia (TIME, May 16 et seq.). Sir Austen succeeded only so far as to get Dr. Stresemann to give newsgatherers an unsigned interview in which he said: "It is a great pity that some citizens of Soviet Russia seem to be doing unwise things which strengthen the hands of their enemies...
...well substantiated though sensational report told that Dr. Stresemann carried back to Berlin a secret British memorandum asking what would be the attitude of the German Government in the event that Soviet Russia should attack Poland, and France or Britain should wish to rush troops to Poland's defense over German soil. When these Russian matters were up for discussion, Foreign Minister August Zaleski of Poland was to be seen anxiously pattering in and out of M. Briand's bedchamber. When within, he often sat, rumor told, close at the bedside of M. Briand, attentive to his every...
William Averell Harriman, U. S. financier who has been cruising about central and eastern Europe the last few years seeking opportunities for investing his money, last week clinched control of all manganese ore mined in the Soviet Union. Two years ago the Soviet gave him a concession to mine manganese, invaluable ore for toughening steel, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and the Caspian Seas. He was to pay the Soviet Government $3 for each ton of manganese mined and to rebuild a railroad from Tiflis to Poti. He had to produce at least 500 tons of manganese...
...immediately after Promoter Harriman received his concession, Soviet agents attempted to circumvent him by working the manganese mines at Nikopol in the Ukraine, north of the Black...
Last week, according to the Berliner Tageblatt, the Soviet Government, perhaps intending to vex Great Britain, agreed to restrict manganese mining at Nikopol, to take only $1.50 a ton for Harriman-mined manganese, and to waive its demand for renovating the Tiflis-Poti railroad. Those modifications made Promoter Harriman virtual overlord of Soviet manganese production...