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...foreign nations, there is an item of $251,379,035.49 carried on the Treasury's books as owing from Russia. It is the one item on which it is improbable that much if anything will ever be paid. The debt was incurred for war purposes by the Tsarist and Kerensky regimes. When the Kerensky regime went under in November, 1917, most of the Russian money in this country was deposited with the National City Bank of New York. Certain amounts were added to this deposit; and, finally, with the U. S. Treasury's acquiescence, about...
Last week, a formal feud was opened when the "Tsar" announced, according to buzzing emigre circles in the present capital of Tsarist Russia, Paris, that all those emigres who refused to recognize him as Tsar will be refused admittance by a terrestrial St. Peter when the gates of the Tsarist kingdom are opened...
Population. The 1924 population was 75% of that of Tsarist Russia, the loss being accounted for by the loss of Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and east Poland...
About a year later, Okladsky was the highest paid ordinary official of the notorious Okrana or Tsarist secret police. He was created a "personal noble" (noble for life), later an hereditary nobleman.* In Moscow, before his Bolshevik judges, he said that he had been forced to betray his Nihilist comrades under the inhuman torture to which he was subjected while awaiting execution and, at the price of his freedom, had consented to join the Okrana and work for the Tsar...
...Krestinsky, Bolshevik Ambassador to Germany; Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires in Britain. In the capital they are to sit in solemn conclave with the chiefs of the Communist Party. It was rumored that they would decide to recognize the debts to foreign countries contracted by the Tsarist régime...