Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Davis, who has just returned from a trip to Soviet Russia, will speak at the Harvard Liberal Club at a luncheon today...
Davis represented the American official student delegation which is going to Russia this summer, in making the final arrangements with the Soviet students for the reception of the American group. He spent a month in Moscow and the provinces and was present at the Sun Yet Sen University in Moscow to witness the spectacular demonstration that followed the news of the fall of Shanghai...
...atrocity, dignified by the title of "execution," concerned 40 Chinese seized in a raid on the grounds of the Soviet Embassy at Peking (TIME, April 18), in violation of international law. Seized also were various documents which Chang Tso-lin's own interpreters translated as they pleased. These were introduced as evidence at a secret trial last week, and half the 40 prisoners were ordered strangled. They were not told which were to be strangled, which imprisoned or set free. They were simply herded into a compound a short distance from where Senator Bingham and War Lord Chang were...
...this Shanghai war on "Reds," able New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty arrived from Moscow at Peking and cabled, "This correspondent happens to know that the Communist Party's politbureau has been advocating far less Communism in China than its enemies care to admit." He continued that the Soviet Government is convinced of the impracticability of communizing China, at present, but is anxious to foster the development of Chinese Nationalism, a force directed against the Occident...
...reason is that during the Lausanne Conference of 1923 (at Lausanne, Switzerland) the Russian representative, M. Vaslav Vorovsky, was assassinated. His alleged assassin was acquitted by a Swiss Court. For four years the Swiss Government has refused the kind of apology demanded by the Soviet Government. Ergo, no Soviet "observers" have come to League Conferences...