Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stiff Protest. Goaded by Tory ire, the Baldwin Government addressed a stiff protest to the authorities at Moscow last week complaining that the Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement of 1921 had been violated by the Soviet Government in despatching funds to the support of the British "general strike" (TIME, May 10 et seq.). No mention was made of funds now passing from Moscow to London? though £30,000 was thus added to the coal strikers' war chest last week?because the "coal strike" had not yet been officially declared "subversive" (as was the "general strike" but still retained the character...
...moneys received by the British miners do not come from the Russian miners, but officially from the Soviet Government, whose intentions, openly avowed, are to foment revolution...
...Chargé d'Affaires of the Soviet Legation at London issued an official statement: "No money whatever has been contributed to any British strike fund at any time by the Soviet Government...
Presumably endless correspondence will ensue between London and Moscow in an effort to settle whether the moneys in question were technically sent by the Soviet Government proper or merely by its closely interlocked Soviet trade union organizations...
...Soviet Chargé d'Affaires, M. Rozejolev, attended wearing satin knee breeches and a jeweled sword. Ambassador Houghton was clad in ordinary evening dress...