Word: tsarist
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...think a Tsarist restoration possible...
...Alexander was most foully murdered. At this time, Okladsky was in prison and shortly after the assassination he was brought up for trial. To his Tsarist judges he said: "I do not ask and I do not need your leniency. On the contrary, if you show me mercy, I shall regard this as a personal insult." He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was almost immediately commuted...
...capital of Tsarist Russia (Paris), royal Russians and those loyal to royal Russians staged a demonstration protesting against the recognition of their enemy the Bolsheviki. Their plans were to run up the Imperial Flag on the old Embassy, but it was thought that they would be persuaded not to do so as such an act would inevitably bring them into collision with the Paris police...
Another minor point in the deliberations hinges on the question of Chesham House, Tsarist London Embassy. At present M. Sabline, member of the Embassy staff before Bolshevik days, occupies the house and, "recognizing that he is not in Moscow," refuses to budge. M. Rakovsky claimed the Embassy for Sovietland and thus evinces a desire to establish the Soviet regime as lawful heir to that of the Tsars. The British Government favors M. Rakovsky's contention, but the whole matter was exciting a good 'deal of comment and was further complicated by obscure legal points...
...Institute to date have been its failure to secure intelligent spokesmen for such tremendous political forces as the Soviet Internationale, the Vatican, British Labor. Such omissions are not of vital moment, yet it is pertinent to consider that Russian representation has been limited to the seven-years discredited Tsarist officials, and that the Labor movement of Great Britain is as yet without an exponent or apologist at Williamstown...