Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tsar Nicholas II and last, whose successor he claimed to be. A leader of glorious victories and masterly retreats, the Grand Duke Nicholas was beloved of thousands of Russian emigres and commanded popularity even among the masses in Russia after the Revolution, to the constant discomfort of the Soviet state...
...which the Soviet press scares Russians was added, last week,* a potent U. S. citizen 89 years of age, gaunt, and frail with parchment skin and eyes that seem always sunken behind dark-lensed spectacles. A searing editorial in Besbozhnik (The Godless), famed anti-religious organ of the Soviet State, revealed, as horrid fact, that 65.000 "Baptist Bibles" have recently been printed in Russia. Since someone must have paid for them, and since John Davison Rockefeller Sr. is rich, philanthropic and Baptist, Editor Shpitzberg of Besbozhnik pointed accusingly across the Atlantic at Rockefeller Sr., while indicating John Davison Rockefeller...
...PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT, WHICH WAS ALWAYS MY OWN IDEAL AS IT WAS THAT OF MY UNFORGETTABLE FATHER, HAS BEEN SO ABUSED BY BLIND PARTY PASSIONS THAT IT PREVENTED EVERY USEFUL DEVELOPMENT IN THE STATE. THE PEOPLE HAVE LOST ALL FAITH IN THE INSTITUTION. IN THE PARLIAMENT EVEN THE COMMON DECENCIES OF SOCIAL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN PARTIES AND INDIVIDUALS HAVE BECOME IMPOSSIBLE...
...SACRED DUTY TO PRESERVE THE UNITY OF THE STATE BY EVERY MEANS IN MY POWER. TO SEEK TO REMOVE THESE ABUSES BY FRESH ELECTIONS WOULD HAVE BEEN A WASTE OF TIME AND VALUABLE ENERGY. BY SUCH METHODS WE HAVE ALREADY LOST MANY PRECIOUS YEARS. WE MUST TRY OTHER METHODS AND TREAD NEW PATHS...
...CERTAIN THAT IN THIS SOLEMN MOMENT ALL UNDERSTAND THESE WORDS FROM THE HEART OF THEIR KING AND THAT THEY WILL BE MY LOYAL FELLOW WORKERS IN ALL MY FUTURE EFFORTS TO DO WHAT THE HEALTH OF THE STATE REQUIRES...