Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet Academy For Political Clowns opened its doors at Moscow last week under the rigid supervision of the State. Shrewd, Dictator Stalin has long since instructed his subordinates to see that in every Communist parade there shall be funnymen dressed as "President Coolidge," "King George V," "Capital," etc. Amid deep Communist bellymirth "President Coolidge," refuses to "recognize" a "Russian Bear," trips over it and falls sprawling...
...such clowning the Soviet populace is painlessly "educated." But of late there have not been enough clowns at the Government's disposal. Last week, as the "Academy" was opened, it was announced that "Bim" and "Bom" famed and beloved Russian clowns will be employed as instructors...
Pavel Ephimovich Dybenko, young and colorful Communist, emerged into the news again for an instant last week when Dictator Stalin of Soviet Russia appointed him Chief of the Red Army Supply Service...
Tchitcherin Travels. The "T. and T. Conference" at Odessa (TIME, Nov. 22) between Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey and Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin came to a most amiable close last week amid continued, portentous secrecy. As he took ship to sail across the Black Sea to Constantinople, the swarthy dandified Tewfik Rushdi Bey assured newsgatherers that Turkey and the Soviets are now in diplomatic concord, adding darkly: "Turkey does not favor any Western state to the detriment of any Eastern state. . . ." With Tewfik Rushdi Bey gone, M. Tchitcherin, still less communicative, tarried not in Odessa. Bundled...
Portents. In diplomatic circles the belief was current that the Odessa conference was concerned with arriving at an understanding whereby Turkey will be able to apply for membership in the League of Nations without violating certain treaty obligations by which she is bound to Soviet Russia. The wild guesses and speculations current in the Occidental press caused loud reverberations of scorn in the Levantine and Japanese press. Levantine editors remarked that the violent "Westernizing" campaign being carried on in Turkey by Kemal Pasha precludes his ever being regarded by Orientals with anything but suspicion. At Tokyo, the Board of Directors...