Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revelations. The Premier announced in even, measured tones that His Majesty's Government desired, with the approval of the House, to break off formal relations with Soviet Russia...
...revealed for the first time what had been discovered by Scotland Yard when its operatives raided Arcos House (TIME, May 23, 30), in which were the premises of the Soviet Trade Delegation which came to London under the Trade Agreement of 1921, during the Lloyd George Ministry. For perhaps an hour the Premier built up his thesis that the Russian Trade Delegation and also the Soviet Embassy have functioned as directing agencies for Communist propaganda, subversion and espionage. The evidence supporting this thesis was a sheaf of telegrams and letters which were stated rather than proved to have passed between...
White Book. The evidence cited by Premier Baldwin was released in a White* bearing His Majesty's Arms, last week, and further imprinted with the title: Documents Illustrating Hostile Activities of the Soviet Government and the Third International Against Great Britain...
...random example of what the White Book contains, observers noted a letter telling how down-and-out British subjects have been trained as Communist agitators while being given employment as sailors on Russian merchant ships. The Soviet agent in charge of this subversive activity told in early letters how "choice of the men was carefully made, preference being given to Negroes, Hindus and other oppressed nationals." In later correspondence these "oppressed nationals" were declared to have turned out to be "lazy swine . . . the refuse of the Labor Party . . . slackers and bad workers who drank or left the ships...
...There is and always has been," said Mr. Lloyd George, "enough evidence ten times over to turn the Soviet representatives out of England. . . . The Soviet attitude, from first to last, has been a clumsy attempt to reconcile a desire for peace with hopes for the destruction of the British Empire. . . . Their representatives have been liars and double dealers-but that does not prove that this is the time to turn them...