Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...objections, contemplates that the British taxpayers should be made liable for further loans to the Russian State, raised by means of the guarantee of the British Government as a condition upon which any part of the private claims of certain British creditors should be recognized or met by the Soviet Republic...
When Premier MacDonald signed the treaty with Soviet Russia early in August, political prognosticators termed the action "the first note in Labor's funeral march". Perhaps the metaphor was a bit premature, for certainly MacDonald was not yet dead. But if the storm of protest that arose immediately after the document was signed can be taken as a symptom, there can be little doubt that the Government was in a critical position...
...tenure of office of less than nine months. Labor has proved its mettle. Greatest are its accomplishments in foreign affairs, for in that direction most needed to be done. The recognition of Soviet Russia prepared the way for the international rehabilitation of that country and the revival of trade upon which the economic restoration of both Russia and England so largely depends...
...nation-wide menace, this Klan. It knows no party. It knows no country. It knows bigotry, malice and terror. Our national Government is founded on reason and the Golden Rule. This Klan is preaching and practicing terror and force. Its only prototype is the Soviet of Russia. So I feel that I am walking the path of duty in going into this race...
...Approval of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty (TIME...