Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even non-Catholics were conscious that the new "Commandments" of Signor Marini transcend in blasphemy any utterance ever ordered to be pronounced in the schools of an avowedly Christian country. Not in all the Soviet Revolution has the like been heard in Russia...
...antiforeign, but anti-imperial. We are not against Germany or Russia because they are not against us; but most other foreign nations are imperialists in China, and our enemies." 3) Chiang Kaishek, the generalissimo who has conquered half China for the Nationalists. 4) Michael Markovitch Borodin, famed Soviet Russian political adviser to the Nationalists (TIME...
...Duty. The Associated Press reported that a U. S. correspondent at Moscow was recently charged $66 duty on six 25c tubes of U. S. tooth paste sent him by a Manhattan friend. Urbane, he presented the tooth paste to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in lieu of paying the duty...
...fact that she could not speak Russian. Acting with this assertion as their excuse they took from her: 1) letters of credit aggregating $3,000; 2) all her "undecipherable" papers and notes in English. Mrs. Flanagan was then allowed to proceed, reached Reval, applied to the local Soviet consul, and secured through him the return of her papers. He explained that the local frontier officials had exceeded their authority, patriotically supposing that "nobody ought to be allowed to have as much money as did Mme. Flanagan...
...himself was well treated because he placed his electrical knowledge at the disposal of the local Soviet which was with difficulty installing a power station...