Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...numerous fruitless battles with the Soviet forces, between Dec. 18, 1918, and Aug. 19, 1919, the British lost twelve other ships: the light cruiser Cassandra, the mine carriers Victoria, Verulam, Gentian and Myrtle, and seven torpedo cutters...
...which, although never declared (see France), was nonetheless hotly fought. Indeed, the L-55, a ship of 1,150 tons, is almost as large as the recently raised U.S. submarine S-4 (TIME, Dec. 26), and twice as large as the Italian F14, sunk and raised last fortnight. Soviet technicians added to the jollification by announcing that the Red sailors' prize is in sufficiently good condition 'to be made serviceable, seaworthy, deadly. Citizens of the British Commonwealth of Nations were hopefully and confidently doubtful that the L55 will ever sink a British ship...
...youth and ominous "past" of Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia are kept shrouded in perpetual mystery by his iron censorship of all Soviet information sources. The very names of his wife and child are well-guarded secrets. Stalin dwells in the seclusion of an Oriental Potentate, because, say his friends, his parents were Asiatic and the reticence of the East is his birthright. Naturally the enemies of Comrade Stalin tell another story...
...raiders were led by Soviet Russian General Sulkovsky. Though details were meagre it appeared that a local chieftain "Prince" Gaifu, had resisted certain demands made upon him by the Outer Mongolian Soviet Republic and was being trounced...
Observers feared lest this local engagement prove part of a Soviet project to coerce the chieftains of Inner Mongolia and North Eastern Manchuria into federating themselves with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics ("Russia...