Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Arthur Ruhl,* famed European correspondent, cabled to The New York Herald Tribune a series of significant despatches from Riga, Latvia. Carefully Correspondent Ruhl made clear that his intention was to provide a general picture of Soviet Russia uncluttered by statistics. In a word, he found business and industrial conditions reviving on an apparently firm basis; social and religious affairs functioning with but little friction in new channels; and Governmental dictatorship still absolute...
Industry. Many Soviet industries still maintain a vague air of being on parade. Generally, however, manufacturers seem to lack capital and raw materials rather than customers. A visit to the offices of the All Russian Textile Syndicate gives the impression that that industry, at least, is being run at a profit along U. S. lines. Typewriters bang, executives hold conferences, work moves forward with all the earmarks of babbittry...
...might many another self-made man, he admits that his subordinates have a monopoly of whatever technical training there is in the establishment. On the basis of their technical training, many pre-revolution bourgeosie, or even nobles, receive good salaries*-if they are adaptable and pliant to the Soviet...
...Leningrad arrived John Maynard Keynes with Mrs. Keynes (Lupokova, the famed Russian dancer). He was present as guest of the Academy of Sciences-representative of Cambridge University at the Academy's bicentenary. To Soviet pressmen the celebrated economist spoke as follows...
...With regard to the question of Russian debts, loans and credits, it is, generally speaking, a matter of time. The Russians repudiated their debts and it is obvious that no new credits will be forthcoming until the world is convinced that the Soviet Government won't repudiate them also . . . I can say that . . . the Soviet Government will find it hard to get any fair-sized loan today...