Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tchitcherin blandly announced that Soviet nationals may participate at the various international conferences projected by the League, "the sole condition of their participation being that the conference shall be convened to meet in some other country than Switzerland...
Wearily League supporters accused M. Tchitcherin of "continuing to pretend that Soviet nationals are not safe in Switzerland because many Swiss are anti-Communists." At present the Swiss Government is attempting to patch up its strained relations with the U. S. S. R., and not succeeding very well because M. Tchitcherin prefers to insist that the League go to enormous expense to hold its conferences elsewhere than at Geneva, where its extensive immovable equipment is located...
Signer Maffi, leader of the minute Communist Opposition in the Italian Chamber, flayed the Locarno Pacts when they were presented for ratification last week: "To the false democracy of bourgeois governments which met at Locarno, we Communists oppose the desire for peace of Soviet Russia, which is the only country in the world willing and ready to discuss the question of disarmament. . . . I laugh with those who laugh at Locarno!" While Signor Maffii "laughed," the Chamber ratified the Pacts by a solid Fascist vote, with the Aventine Opposition absent (TIME, Jan. 25) and only two Communists daring to vote contra...
...Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Georg Tchitcherin, officially charged that Chang's troops interfered last week with the Soviet-operated sector of the Chinese Eastern Railway south of Harbin. Allegedly M. Ivanoff, the Soviet general manager of this sector of the railway, was "arrested" by Chang's soldiers, who thought that they should be allowed to ride free. Certain rolling stock appears to have been smashed, a mail car looted, and two Soviet engineers forced to operate trains on which the Chinese soldiers rode...
...notoriously so weak that its pretense of representing "China" is a mockery, M. Tchitcherin's "impossible" demand that it coerce the powerful Chang was regarded as a warning that the U. S. S. R. is seriously considering the employment of the Red Army against the pro-Japanese, anti-Soviet "Manchurian War Lord...