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...Tsarist agreement the Soviet Government twice restated cutting the transfer date to 1960. Last week China simply refused to believe that Russia had offered to sell the railroad Chinese had spoken for. Furthermore, because the road was built with French money, France had a claim. Last week Japan had a solution for the tangle. It primed the puppet Manchukuo Government to try to horn in as the heir of China's rights in the railroad. The Manchukuoan board chairman of the Chinese Eastern, Li Shao-ken, loudly claimed the road for Manchukuo. He added that, though Soviet rights...
Patriotic Prince Leonid's country was Imperial Russia; his grandfather was Grand Master of Ceremonies at the Tsarist Court...
Lockhart met Lenin infrequently, Trotsky often. He thinks Lenin was extraordinarily impersonal, coldly logical; Trotsky brave, bitter, emotional; both able. No friend to the Tsarist regime (". . . unparalleled inefficiency and corruption. No other nation would have stood the privations which Russia stood for anything like the same length of time"), Lockhart admired many a Bolshevik bureaucrat, got in hot water with his colleagues and his government for holding out strongly against intervention. Finally he changed his mind, thus losing the Bolsheviks' confidence without gaining anybody else's. When Lenin was shot the Bolsheviks arrested Lockhart as a spy, held...
...made from human hair." Barbers throughout the Soviet Union were urged to vie with each other in "comradely competition" to collect hair and give it to the State. Leaders in the contest were promised as a reward free trips to the Soviet Riviera for vacations in former tsarist palaces...
...stranger, like the brown-eyed baby's mother, came from Georgia in the wild, fierce south of Russia?a land of authentic brigands who sniped at Tsarist officials from behind romantic mountain crags and unromantically ignored Georgia's pink & purple sunsets. As she grew to childhood, the locksmith's daughter knew her father's friend, the future Dictator of Russia, by his Georgian nicknames. "Soso" and "Koba." His daring robberies (which he called ''expropriations'') seemed as natural to her as his still more daring murders ("executions")?for were they all not done to get money for the Communist cause...