Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resolutions. In the days of Samuel Gompers, a routine resolution of A. F. of L. conventions was one demanding recognition of Soviet Russia. But no such resolution came forward last year or last week. When hypervigilant Los Angeles police arrested two alleged Reds at the convention's door, the delegates scoffed at police and prisoners alike...
...mutinies broke out in the south of France (TIME, Oct. 10) and the voice of the French press grew louder. The Government, earnestly desiring to avoid a row, according to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, was last week compelled by force of public opinion to demand unequivocally the recall of Soviet Ambassador Rakovsky from France...
...Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, born Dutch, naturalized Briton, Director General of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., delivered himself in Manhattan last week of a biting criticism of the Soviet regime, particularly regarding the condition of the Russian oil fields and their administration...
...consensus that Leon Trotzky is the most brilliant of all the Soviet leaders, not even excepting Lenin. In stature small and unimpressive and in appearance like a university professor, he is a striking orator with a rare gift for metaphor. As an organizer, he probably has not an equal in all Russia, which is not noted for producing genius of that type. Fearlessness in debate has at once been his strength and his weakness; for by it he conquered and because of it he was conquered...
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (pronounced Karlee'neen), first chairman of the Soviet Union Central Executive Committee, leaned back in his chair, his face wreathed in gratification. There on his desk in his private office in the Kremlin, Moscow, was an invitation from the City of Boston to participate in its third centenary celebration in 1930. So high an honor could not be refused. With a grin and a flourish the invitation was accepted, a delegation named to proceed to Boston for the event...