Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words flung, last week at Geneva, by a stout, leather-lunged, aggressive Russian at the gentlemen who compose the League's Preparatory Disarmament Commission (TIME, Sept. 26, et seq.). The gentlemen, having been called "purely decorative," sat unmoved. The Russian, Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Assistant Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, then proposed that every nation should...
Silence. Comrade Litvinov, concluding his speech, offers the Soviet proposal in the form of a motion. . . . Silence. . . . The motion is not seconded. . . . Litvinov stands for a long minute, lips pursed, brow furrowed, interrogative. . . .Then the League gentlemen vent their feelings by adjourning for luncheon...
...crash had already come, peasants had revolted, murdered land owners, and seized land, the Russian army had dissolved, railroads had stopped and factories had closed the return to say agery had begun before the Bolsheviki finally came on the scene. In a ter months the Bolsheviki established the Soviet Government, spread a Red army all over Russia and Siberia, and righted all the evils. This is the greatest single achievement in contemporary history and was largely due to Lenine, incomparably the greatest statesman the modern world has ever known...
...mere presence in Washington of so suave and polished a statesman as Ambassador Moukhtar Bey could constitute an "insult" was explained by Mr. Gerard on the grounds that Moukhtar Bey took part during 1919 in negotiations between the Turkish and Soviet Governments, which were followed by Armenian massacres and the partition of Armenia between Russia and Turkey, at a time, declared Mr. Gerard, when "the Armenian Republic was recognized by the allied and associated nations, including the United States...
...Moscow, the Soviet Government took unto itself the estate of Basso Feodore Ivanovitch Chaliapin. Last August they had stripped him of his title "People's Artist" and of his other estate (in Yaroslavsk Province) because, they charged, he had helped Tsarists to escape Russia...