Word: tsarists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...away with-all land belongs to the State. The State has a monopoly in foreign trade, the peasant sells at an absurd price to the Government and the Government profiteers outrageously. The author goes on to say-that there are fewer elementary schools-now than there were under the Tsarist regime, that there is a great increase in crime among children. And them there is the appalling spectacle of the: child-prostitute. In other words, the Bolsheviki have risked ruining Russia in order to put theories to the test. Now they are: trying to build up what they have destroyed...
...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...
...opening sessions of the conference were marked with much plain speaking from Premier Ramsay Mac-Donald. Old Tsarist Treaties were relegated to subcommittees for inspection, but no important decisions were or could be arrived at. Cessation of Bolshevik propaganda and recognition of debts and private property by the Soviet: Government were the chief items on the agenda...
Admiral Behrens, Russion delegate, attracted much attention. A typical aristocrat of the Tsarist regime, speaking French fluently, he showed great interest in the League and in the Conference...