Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, M. Georg Tchitcherin and Tewfic Rushdi Bey, respectively the Foreign Ministers of Soviet Russia and Turkey, signed a three-year mutual guarantee compact in three articles and with three attached protocols...
...were inclined to smile at the bow to old school "secret diplomacy" which was made by the signatories in keeping their negotiations under cover until last week, although the signatures were affixed on Dec. 17. Diplomats widely averred that the treaty constitutes a standing bluff on the part of Soviet Russia and Turkey to the effect that neither will join that "union of an economic and political nature," the League of Nations. Diplomats opined that a further tang of bluff is given to the agreement by the fact that mutual neutrality instead of mutual aid is promised between the parties...
Meyerhold's Theatre. Last minute satires on Soviet life, plays suppressed under the Tsarist regime, a bizarrely staged modernistic Hamlet, and Roar, China! This last, by M. Tretyakov, who has recently returned from China, deals satirically with the present political muddle there...
...York City, financiers buzzed excitedly over a luncheon given by Vice President Reeve Schley of the Chase National Bank to the representatives of the Ail-American Textile Syndicate and the Amtorg Trading Corporation, the latter being the Russian Soviet Union's agency...
...Russia the news of the luncheon was construed in the Soviet press to constitute "the first outspoken recognition by American finance and industry of the importance of Soviet trade and the stability of the Soviet government." When New York reporters waylaid poor Mr. Schley and cross-examined him as to the accuracy of this pronouncement, he ascribed the luncheon to social motives. He in fact owed the Soviets a luncheon, since last summer they entertained him in Russia...