Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Yusupov is about 35, slender, with gray eyes, sandy hair, sharp features. He is reputed " quiet, even retiring." He was, before the Soviet Government confiscated all his property, one of the richest men in Russia, and could, it was said, travel from one end of European Russia to another and sleep each night on his own property. He was educated in England at Eton and Oxford, being a contemporary of the present Prince of Wales at Magdalen College...
...Bolshevist and I am not a reactionary, thank God! I am a little of both." Such was the defense and the argument of the Rt. Rev. Edgar Blake, of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, for giving aid and comfort to the Living Church of Soviet Russia...
...inception of the matter was last Spring when the Methodist Church, at the request of the Soviet Government, appointed a board to aid in the reorganization of the Russian Church (TIME, March 3). The board was later recalled, but Bishop Blake, resident Bishop of Paris, attended in private capacity the Russian Church conference which unfrocked Patriarch Tikhon. He pledged $51,000 to that body to educate its young priests, made an address defending the Soviet Government. For these activities he was ordered" from Moscow by the Methodist Church...
Bishop Blake was attacked before The Board of Bishops for advocating interlocking relations with a Church which supports a Government (the Soviet) avowedly atheistic and seeking the overthrow of the U. S. Government...
Always aware of the strength of such an appeal, Mr. Gompers uses it himself. If Hearst first blinds the American masses with the red flag of "big money" and then feeds them Soviet propaganda, is Gompers justified in playing upon the very same prejudice to rouse these masses against "bloody Moscow"? Big business, charges the President of the American Federation of Labor, has been using Mr. Hearst as a willing tool to reopen relations with Russia...