Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Russian Cat. The Churchill-Birkenhead clique, arch-Russophobes, dictated (as their share of the Cabinet compromise) a note of "protest and warning" to the Soviet Government. The language of this note was not that of diplomacy. It was intelligible to the man in the street and clear to the man in the gutter. Had such a note been addressed to the U. S., French, or Italian Government by the British it would have constituted an insult, only to be avenged by war. Paradoxically the mild, peace-propagating Sir Austen Chamberlain was obliged to sign this note as Foreign Secretary...
...There is no ragged proletariat in Russia, but a well-ordered community." Thus, with a somewhat defensive air, spoke William H. Hamilton, Assistant Vice President of the Guaranty Co., Manhattan, as he returned last week from a tour of Soviet Russia, made in company with Mrs. Hamilton and Mr. & Mrs. W. Averell Harriman. "Everywhere we received excellent treatment-not relatively excellent, but excellent!" said Mr. Hamilton. "Americans are welcomed in Russia and are given every courtesy. . . . The Russians are doing amazing things. . . . "I used to think that the president of the National City Bank and the president...
...Soviet Government can only express regret at Mr. Kellogg's fantastic attacks...
Thus read a statement released in English last week by the Soviet Foreign Office in reply to U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg's recent excuse to Congress (TIME, Jan. 24) that the U. S. Administration's policy toward Nicaragua and Mexico is based on the existence of "Red plots" in those countries...
Premier Alexei Rykov said informally. "The Soviet Government has not sent and will not send any agents to Nicaragua to conduct anti-United States propaganda. . . . The Third International [world Communist propaganda bureau with headquarters in Moscow] appears to be so far from conducting such activities that I was amused to find the other day that only two out of the five principal officials in charge had any definite idea where Nicaragua was. . . . The statement of Mr. Kellogg contains naive untruths. . . . He is only following the example of the British Tories who counterfeited a letter supposed to have been written...