Word: tsarists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognition of Grand Duke Cyril, son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, as heir to the Imperial Russian Throne by a family council in Paris (TIME, Dec. 10), was disputed in conclave by Tsarist emigrés in London...
...Duke believed that the Russian people would recall the old rulers if they had a free choice. He appealed to Russian emigres scattered all over the world, of whom there are said to be 2,000,000, to contribute one franc (about 5? ) per month for the dissemination of Tsarist propaganda in Russia with the object of delivering the people from the Bolsheviki and giving them a fair chance of holding a plebiscite for the election of a new Tsar...
Furthermore, presupposing the fall of Bolshevism, the Tsarist regime will ask certain foreign Governments, including that of the U. S., to return "the 1,000,000,000 gold rubles ($514,000,000) sent from Russia before the revolution and now deposited in various banks under Government guarantees." With this sum, it was believed that the restoration of the economic and social life of Russia may be accomplished without appealing to foreign nations for a loan...
...dramatists are equal to any in the world, that the Soviet authorities in Moscow would suppress public performances of Alexis Tolstoy's play The Golden Book of Love, a light comedy which features Catherine the Great. It was felt that the Empress, being at the head of a Tsarist State, would be too much for the Bolsheviki...
...custom of "adoption" is an honor invented by the Bolsheviki to replace the Tsarist method of making distinguished persons honorary officers in the Navy or Army. The main difference in the Bolshevik idea is that Government departments adopt a regiment or a warship. The Foreign Office recently adopted a regiment, but M. Georges Tchicherin (Foreign Minister) did not become a colonel; he became an honorary private...