Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strength in Numbers. Since the organized workers of Britain have never before attempted united coercion, it was not generally realized last week how numerous and well coordinated are their ranks. Nowhere else, except in Soviet Russia, is trade unionism so firmly grounded. Last week it was estimated that as many able bodied workers are controlled, as to strikes, by the Trades Union Congress as there are men, women and children in New York City. The unionists operate, in normal times, virtually all the land and sea transport services, the mines, most heavy manufacturing and the building trades. Last week these...
...Stresemann of the Reich, known because of his alert opportunism as "the Lloyd George of Germany," was lauded to the skies by German journals of every party last week when he made public the text of the Russo-German Neutrality Treaty which he and Foreign Minister Tchitcherin of the Soviet Union (TIME, Oct. 12) have been quietly preparing, by secret negotiation, for some months...
...basis of relations between Germany and the Soviet Union remains the Treaty of Rapallo.* The German Government and Government of the Soviet Union will remain in friendly contact with one another...
...Bridge" or "Rope"? The treaty may become either a bridge over which Soviet Russia will pass into contact with other "capitalistic" nations, or a rope by which the Soviets may tug Germany out of friendly contact with the west. Frenchmen were generally anxious about and critical of the new instrument last week. Most League officials seemed not to share the French view that it will tend to keep Germany out of the League...
...Prague, Senator Brabec, leader of the Czechoslovakian National Democratic party, advocated the recognition of Soviet Russia by Czechoslovakia, a policy which he has hitherto bitterly opposed...