Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...According to Article V of the trade agreement, Mr. Khinchuk [head of the Soviet Trade delegation, but absent last week at the League of Nations Economic Conference (see THE LEAGUE)] enjoys all of the rights and immunities enjoyed by the official representatives of other foreign powers in Britain. The right of Mr. Khinchuk to the above-mentioned privileges was confirmed quite recently by the Foreign Office note...
...Soviet Trade delegation later issued a statement to the press, reading, in part: ". . . The way the raid was carried on gives no guarantee that documents and materials which the police might allege to have found were really there before the raid took place...
Last week "Jix" apparently staked all on the chance of being able to produce documents sufficiently charged with social dynamite to excuse violation of Soviet diplomatic immunity. The Sunday Observer, a newspaper of Sir William's own party (Conservative) spoke last week of "the dilemma in which the British Government has been thrown by its lack of coordination" (i.e. by "Jix's" independent action...
...such consistently anti-Red news organs as the Chicago Tribune printed a United Press story in which the horrid discovery was revealed that "one of the [Arcos, Ltd.] rooms was furnished with tables and chairs, leading to the belief that it was a secret soviet meeting-room...
...Seldom has the complete inversion of Russia's civilization been more vividly sketched than by the Baron, who remained in Russia until 1920. Of all Russians he appears to despise most Alexander Kerensky (né Kirbitz), calls him the "Grand Eunuch of the Revolution . . . puppet [of the Soviet leaders] . . . seemed more like a . . . girl . . . selling herself to the first person she meets...