Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hero McCartney has not been able to "settle down" he was on trial, last week in London, before the Lord Chief Justice of England-as a spy. In the dock with him was a German youth, one George Hansen, 24. Both were charged with recent spying in behalf of Soviet Russia and with unsuccessful attempts to purchase state secrets from a faithful employe, George Monkland, who had denounced them to Scotland Yard...
Where did he go? Why was he banished? The last question must be answered first. Lev Davidovich Trotsky and 50 more prominent Soviet politicians were banished, last week, because they had attempted to lead an opposition wing in the Russian Communist party, a party which brooks no opposition. By command of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin, the oppositionists had been cast out of the party (TIME, Dec. 26) and expelled from the Soviet Parliament (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week the outcasts were sorted out into grades, according to truculence, and then banished to regions of exile carefully chosen to fit their...
Truculents. Secondly, last week, were classed the great and rationally truculent: 1) Fallen War Lord Trotsky; 2) Onetime Soviet Ambassador to Paris Christian Rakovsky; 3) Leading Soviet Propagandist Karl Radek. These and their immediate followers were sent away to individual exile in separate, widely dispersed towns of Asiatic Russia. Trotsky was scheduled to speed by rail from Moscow across European Russia, traverse the broad Volga, proceed again by rail through the steppes of Kirghiz and to the end of the line in the mountains of Turkestan. Thence he would pass by caravan over more mountains and steppes to remote Vyernyi...
Questioned about the Soviet rule in Russia, the European philosopher answered that the Bolshevist regime had come to stay. "Most revolutions are mere retrogressions. There is nothing new under the sun." Explaining this remark he said that for every thing that seems new, startling, and modern today, conditions almost exactly analagous can be discovered by searching back far enough through history...
...Shell invites war because Standard of N. Y. buys oil from Russia. Russian oil on the Indian market competes closely with Rumanian oil shipped there by Shell. Shell refuses to buy Russian oil on moral grounds, saying that the Soviet Government's confiscation of oil properties in Russia was thievery. Placards have been posted in Shell offices: "We do not sell stolen...