Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom the waiter would not function was Comrade Tomski, loquacious Russian, who expressed gratitude to Britain for allowing him to stay "a whole 14 days in England." Mr. Tomski spoke for three hours in his native tongue. A translator informed the audience that Mr. Tomski had said that the Soviet had "relieved bankers of the burden of banks, land owners of the burden of land, and factory owners of the burden of conducting factories." In the middle of these proceedings the organist got the wrong cue and burst into The International. After Comrade Tomski had finished a motion was proposed...
Repeated dispatches say that after a lapse of some ten years Russia is again to have, freely and openly, her vodka. The Soviet Government has decided to manufacture it again, with 40% alcoholic strength. The reason given is that this year a good harvest is expected and the Government, knowing that the peasants would manufacture a great deal of strong drink for themselves, decided that it might as well do the manufacturing itself at a profit...
From Peking, M. Karakhan Soviet Ambassador to China, astute troublemaker, departed for Moscow...
...powers stand strictly by their treaty rights they may so weaken the Government on which they depend for guarantee of those rights, that they may within a few months or years be faced with the alternative of using force or losing their foothold in the country. In that case Soviet Russia would be ready to step into their place, posing as the friend of China. The course of Chinese diplomacy at the coming conference will lie between Scylla and Charybdis...
...serious for Hongkong which is reported to be losing $1,000,000 a day by the boycott. The British and Japanese can protest to Peking, and Peking can give orders to Canton -and Canton will go on doing as it pleases. The anti-foreign sentiment in Canton, led by Soviet agitators, gives the British and Japanese the choice of direct action (i.e. using force) or nothing...