Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Either W. A. Harriman is braver, more far-sighted, more lucky or more reckless than most, for he has just concluded negotiations with the Soviets for control of the Caucasian manganese ore properties (TIME, June 22, RUSSIA). The Harriman interests have acquired a 20-year grant to operate these mines, and exclusive right to export manganese. The Soviet will receive a royalty on all ore shipped, with the annual minimum figure...
...repeatedly warned Germany as regards the consequences of joining the League. We still consider it very risky. Germany is at liberty to act according to her own interpretation of expediency in such a step, but she should know that if she takes the step, the Soviet union will have to take measures to safeguard its own interests in a different direction, which lies outside strengthening and developing her economic and political connections with Germany...
...peroration: "England needs Germany as a weapon for balancing her policy in Europe and as a base of attacks on the Soviet union. Since the Conservatives came into power, England is trying by all means to drag Germany into the League in order to use her as a bulwark for possible attacks on Russia...
...Exposition was le Sénateur de Monzie, Minister of Education, accompanied by several other Senators. Greetings between the Senators and the Ambassadorial party over, they proceeded to the Soviet Pavilion in the Exposition, smiling and chatting...
...Japan won economic advantages on paper by the Russo-Japanese Treaty which Russia never would have granted if she had not been checkmated in England by the Conservatives. Russia promises Japan oil concessions in Saghalin and others in Siberia, but the Soviet's history shows that they generally fail to keep their word. Japan's benefits, therefore, are doubtful...