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Shiraksky Canal. Comrade Rykov, Chairman (Premier) of the Council of the People's Commissars (Cabinet) of the Central Government at Moscow, accompanied by Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, journeyed to the town of Leninkin, operated a sluice to the strains of Internationale, opened the Shiraksky Canal, 40 miles long. Two miles of its course runs through a tunnel bored under rocky mountains. It is designed to irrigate 15,000 acres and is the first engineering feat of any consequence attempted during the Bolshevik régime...
...Georg Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Commissar of Foreign Affairs, went to his office, strutted and fretted, took him a pen and wrote big words full of sound and fury, signifying little...
From the desk of Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires in London, to the desk of Georg Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Commissar for Foreign Affairs in Moscow, is about 1,600 miles as the crow flies. By means of the wireless, the brusque message (TIME, Dec. 1) of the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Austen Chamberlain, sped across the intervening space in next to no time; and the messages of Georg to Austen sped back by the same route. All this took place within a few days...
...messages of Comrade Tchitcherin, two in number, deplored the British Government's action in abrogating the Russian Treaties, negotiated painfully by Premier MacDonald; it tacitly declined, however, to accept any responsibility for the "discontent" that the rejection will cause in Russia and Britain, stating that the Bolshevik Government "has displayed a maximum of good-will and concessions" in connection with the treaties...
...acknowledgement, signed by Kalinin, Rykov and Tchitcherin, the U. S. S. R. voiced its pleasure with the action of France, suggested an immediate exchange of ambassadors...