Word: tsarists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return from Mentone, they averred, M. Tchitcherin may have the good luck to find M. Briand's new cabinet sufficiently well established to make negotiating worth while. At that time discussion would seem to be in order concerning: the Tsarist debt to France; Franco-Soviet commercial treaties; a resumption of uninterrupted railway service between France and Russia; the final disposition of Tsarist gunboats now in French hands...
When Foreign Minister Gregory Vassilievitch Tchitcherin is in Moscow it is not unusual for the windows of the Soviet Foreign Office to blaze until dawn. M. Tchitcherin is lank, indefatigable. Once an aristocrat and trained in the Tsarist diplomatic school, he has espoused the cause of the Soviets with a vehemence that drives his hard pushed subordinates to the last fringe of desperation...
...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...