Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet's purpose here is not really to give us genuine assistance. . . . There is an ulterior motive . . . sabotage of the League by the Soviet Government...
...look at this draft convention. From the first word to the last there is no mention or allusion to the League of Nations. . . . [This shows a] fixed purpose of boycotting the League and all its works. . . . Article 63 [of the Soviet draft convention] declares that five copies should be deposited in some capital of some country of five continents. This shows imagination, but it is unnecessary to insult the League in this way and has no bearing on general disarmament. Copies can be sent to Geneva as well as to Timbuctoo...
...scathing conclusion Baron Cushendun remarked that although "some of the Soviet suggestions would make for a better and brighter world . . . don't let us make the mistake of imagining we can reach the goal more quickly ... by taking wild leaps . . . instead of setting to work with patience and perseverance...
...rebuttal to Baron Cushendun soon made by Comrade Litvinov was phrased almost exclusively for home consumption. For example he defended the Soviet Government against charges of bad faith by declaring that it had championed disarmament as far back as the Genoa Conference...
Perhaps the most important development of the debate last week, was the close lining up of the U. S. with Great Britain in opposition to Soviet Russia. Thus U. S. Representative Hugh Simons Gibson followed Lord Cushendun with a speech in which he went even further toward condemning the Soviet proposal and roundly advised that the Commission waste no more time upon it. Meanwhile the German and Turkish representatives had taken the stand that they approved the Soviet proposal "in principle"; but all the Latin nations showed themselves unalterably opposed. As a result, the Commission prepared to put the. Soviet...