Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Saul G. Bron, affable, heavyset, but not gross, able Russian financier arrived on the Mauretania. He headed a commission of industrial leaders prepared, they said, to spend in behalf of Soviet Russia. $40,000,000 for machinery to aid in the modernizing of agricultural methods. Said Saul Bron: "The construction of tractors and trucks for the development of the country is our main concern. Our people are too poor to think of buying pleasure automobiles...
Among these were Liberia, Peru, Costa Rica, Santo Domingo, Panama, Uruguay, Cuba, Brazil, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Haiti, Latvia, Greece, Bulgaria, Lithuania and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...Russian note, despatched by Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, raised pointed objections to the Treaty, but indicated that Soviet Russia would sign anyway, for better or worse...
Hard to resist, for Fascists, Monarchists and Bolshevists alike, is the lure of the U. S. tourist business. For many a year, Soviet Russia has looked enviously at U. S. millionaires squandering marks in Berlin, francs in Paris, lire in Rome. This year, through the tourist bureau Sovtorg-flot, the United Soviet Socialist Republics held out greedy Bolshevist hands. Concessions to arrange Russian tours went to three trans-Atlantic steamship lines (Cunard, French, Holland-American). About 700 tourists have proceeded, or are proceeding, Moscow-ward...
Arrived at one of the three points of entry (Leningrad, Odessa, Soviet-Finnish frontier at Beloostrov), each of the 700 must open suitcases and trunks, satisfy customs inspectors they contain not more than...