Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whenever the League of Nations holds an important international conference, the U. S. and Soviet Russia are invited to send "observers," and, while the U. S. usually accepts, the Soviet Government has steadfastly refused, these past four years...
Locarno followed the Dawes Plan; and security in Europe has measurably followed Locarno. It was only when Premier Macdonald pushed his earnest desire for world concord to the length of furthering a rapprochement with Soviet Russia that he lost contact with British public opinion and was obliged to resign the premiership. He remains the strongest single figure in the British Labor party, and may well become premier again. In the U. S. he will spend merely a short Easter vacation, will call upon President Coolidge, will speak only once, before the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan...
Reds Raided. Emboldened by this Northern success, War Lord Chang Tso-lin, at Peking, ordered his soldiers to enter the grounds of the Soviet Embassy, and to seize all documents and persons in the various subsidiary offices and outbuildings, sparing only the Embassy itself...
...course, in flagrant violation of diplomatic usage. Chang, however, knew that it would be condoned if not approved by non-Reds throughout the world. He was right. Immediately thereafter the Municipal Council of Occidentals who administer the international city at Shanghai employed "White Russian" mercenary soldiers to picket the Soviet Consulate and search all who left or entered. This, too, was in contravention of international usage., but in most non-Red countries was condoned if not approved. It was expected that translations of the documents seized from the Reds at Peking and Shanghai would amply justify the seizure...
...with some amusement that the world saw Ramsey MacDonald; first Labour Prime Minister, pay his respect to the King of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and Emperor of India as dutifully as ever did Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Wellington, or Lord North. It probably made Soviet ministers throw bombs, clench their teeth, bristle their whiskers and evince other characteristically Russian signs of displeasure. It reassured conservative England; at least radical viewpoints did not interfere with good taste...