Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grave rumors rumbled in the Near East last week, reverberated in the Far East. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey and Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Valentinovich Tchitcherin met "secretly" at Odessa and discussed there, according to despatches, a Turko-Russian pact which it was allegedly proposed to expand into an "Asiatic League" embracing in addition China, Persia and Afghanistan...
Eastern Reverberations. The Soviet envoys to China and Japan, MM. Karakhan and Kopf, have been recently recalled to Moscow, to appraise M. Tchitcherin of the moves on the Far Eastern chessboard. It has been widely rumored that the Soviet program of Communist subversion in China will be altered to a policy of attempted co-operation with the first Chinese government which shall emerge strong enough to contract an alliance. As if to forecast this turning of China from Western . Europe to Russia, the present unstable Peking Government recently abrogated the ChinoBelgian trade treaty of 1865.* These developments, admittedly straws bending...
Premier Mussolini looks with a jealous eye at certain portions of the Turkish coast, and is likely to pass from longing to action, if the British Lion has been persuaded into noninterference. An understanding between Soviet Russia and Turkey, judiciously noised in Europe, might well halt the Dictator, no fool...
...Ogulin: "Premier Mussolini is an irresponsible fool! . . . The Italian people are gagged and enslaved. . . . The French are remaining calm because they know that Mussolini is a lunatic who must be humored. . . . Italy is under a worse despot today than in the time of Nero. . . . Conditions are worse than in Soviet Russia. A little group is prison warden for the nation. Each man spies upon his neighbor and nowhere is there security . . . . Mussolini will suffer the destiny to which he is doomed...
...hint of the class war of Marx and Lenin. Among the ranks of the Chinest revolutionaries are also certain men suggesting the drill commanders employed by our own patriots of '76, only instead of French and German military experts, the Southern Chinese have chosen instructors and advisers from Soviet Russia...