Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voted down 271 to 146 a Liberal motion to reduce the salary of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. This technical procedure was intended as a motion of censure against the Cabinet for dispatching its recent intemperate and threatening note to Soviet Russia (TIME, March 7). Paradoxically, Sir Austen, although he signed the vote as Foreign Secretary, was its chief opponent in the Cabinet...
...Russian note then matched almost line for line the anti-British outburst of Soviet statesmen with similar virulently anti-Russian utterances from Winston Churchill, Lord Birkenhead, and Colonel Amery. Shrewd, M. Litvinov, pointed out that no Anglo-Russian "agreement exists limiting the liberty of the press or speech within the boundaries of either country...
...decorous brown patina. Right Honorable Members looked up at "Joe" Chamberlain, the redoubtable right hand man of the great Gladstone; then they drifted from the Lobby into the Chamber, and there heard "Joe's" son, Sir Austen Chamberlain read an amazing tissue of threats and imprecations against Soviet Russia (see above...
Prince Dolgorukovo has been resident in Paris since the Red Revolution, has sunk to penury. Riches indisputably his were to be had for the digging, in Russia. By great good fortune he was able to buy a forged Russian passport from a Soviet official in Paris. Fifty per cent of the to-be-dug-up-treasure was all the official asked, and he entered Russia with Prince Dolgorukovo to insure good faith...
Soon rubles, family plate and gems were unearthed and divided at the onetime Dolgorukovo estate near Kursk. Then the Soviet official produced a whistle, blew, summoned agents of the secret police who seized Prince Dolgorukovo. Last week he was executed by order of the Soviet Cabinet in the Lubianka prison, Moscow. Callous, the Soviet executor merely walked into the room where stood Prince Dolgorukovo, drew a revolver, and shot him, without preliminaries, in the back of the head. Soon the corpse of Prince Dolgorukovo was flung into a cart with those of 18 executed criminals, dumped with these into...