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Lunacharsky Fights Disease While Tchitcherin Sharpens His Pencils and Trotsky Makes Phrases The Mirrors of Moscow* is something more than a collection of character sketches. It is also an outline of conditions in Russia under the Soviet Government. To be sure the Bolshevik oligarchs are shown in a most favorable light and the environment in which they live savors of crude satisfaction. Each chapter holds a mirror to one attitude of Soviet Government and reflects the image of one leader. Future generations will talk of the founders of the new Russia; not merely of Lenin and Trotsky, but also...
...usual rumors are current stating that Soviet Russia is causing the dissension. This time, however, there is some foundation. Tchitcherin, Soviet Foreign Minister, in a note to the Lithuanian Government offering mediation, says: "My government is disturbed over the new complications arising between Lithuania and Poland." This is legitimately regarded as a bid for power by the Russians. Poland has, however, refused to accept Bolshevik mediation; so, after all, Tchitcherin may be looking for other means to secure...
...Watchful waiting may be adequate in dealing with a Mexico, but for a group of nations so economically interdependent as those on the European continent, it is an economic impossibility. Bankrupt Europe cannot long afford a war or wars, should they break out; all the great governmental representatives--M. Tchitcherin, M. Barthou, Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor With--all of them,, like "all the King's horses and all the King's men" are powerless to change this fact. The tragedy is that they are also apparently powerless to effect cooperation...