Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week everyone forgot that less than six months ago Lord Cushendun was only Rt. Hon. Ronald F. M'Neill, Financial Secretary to the Treasury. He loomed suddenly as a champion of Western Europe against Soviet Russia. The occasion for his Ciceronian oration was the most important meeting thus far held by an august body whose title runs to 22 words: The Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, being a Commission to prepare for a Conference on the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (TIME...
...Commission had assembled amid acute embarrassment. It found itself forced to consider, at last, the breath-taking proposal for "immediate and complete disarmament ... of all nations" which was challengingly submitted to the League, some months ago, by Soviet Russia (TIME...
...ignore Utopia, thus offered on a platter, was impossible last week. Already resolutions endorsing the Soviet proposal had poured in from 124 prominent societies and political organizations in 13 countries. The Soviet Government had neatly placed the Commission in the difficult position of having to explain to the world why it could not favor "immediate and complete disarmament...
Cabled despatches, possibly tampered with by the Soviet Censor, have uniformly declared that Trotsky left Moscow in the passive presence of a crowd which merely collected at the station, sang Communist songs, and wailed, "Oh how sad!" as his train chuffed...
...Maxim Gorky," famed author of The Lower Depths, whose real name is Alexei Maximovich Pyeshkov, was informed last week that his likeness will shortly appear on a Soviet postage stamp...