Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enemy to the Russian Orthodox Church is the Soviet Government. But Soviets can be subtle. To combat orthodoxy they chose not atheism or agnosticism, but Baptist and Methodist missionaries. The Soviet plan: to foster Baptist activities and thus enfeeble orthodoxy. This was in 1921. Last week the shrewd Soviets had to admit they had blundered...
Last week, therefore, the Soviet Central Executive Committee passed two potent anti-Baptist laws. One law declared that "the activity of all religious units be confined to the exercise of religion, and be not permitted any economic or cultural work which exceeds the limits of their ministry to the spiritual needs of Soviet citizens." Forbidden, therefore, is all Baptist social welfare or recreation work; permitted is nothing but Sunday preaching, hymn-singing...
...these circumstances that we entered upon that period of Exhaustion that has been described as Peace." Mr. Churchill, British Minister of War during "the" war, describes it in terms of exasperation, cynicism, vitriolic indignation. Though he was at the Peace Conference only toward the end, for the discussion of Soviet Russia, his opinion of the whole fiasco is nonetheless violent. He spits fire upon Wilson Biographer Ray Stannard Baker's smugness: "Mr. Baker detracts from the vindication of his hero by the absurd scenario picture which he has chosen to paint. Wilson's share in the Peace Conference...
...repudiated God, King, Country, morals, treaties, debts, rents, interest, the laws and customs of centuries, all contracts written or implied, the whole structure - such as it is - of human society. In the end he repudiated himself." To the Allies' shambling policy, or rather lack of policy regarding the Soviet, Churchill attributes much of Russia's tragedy. Timely support of Kolchak, brave but bewildered Czech general, would have given effective substance to the ghost war, "... a war in areas so vast that considerable armies, armies indeed of hundreds of thousands of men, were lost - dispersed, melted, evaporated...
...incomparable Tsar. Then, last year. Professor Paul Lamm, working under the music section of the Russian State Publishing Department at Moscow, published a version "in accordance with the autographed manuscripts, including hitherto unpublished scenes, episodes, fragments, and variants"-the original Boris. In this form it was produced on the Soviet stage. Last week this edition was brought out by the Oxford University Press and announced for its first performance outside of Russia by Leopold Stokowski, enterprising maestro of the Philadelphia Orchestra (see below). He plans performances in Philadelphia and Manhattan with the assistance of the Mendelssohn Choir and eminent soloists...