Word: tsarists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Confucius to the present. Among them: Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's Richard the Second, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The governor of a Chinese province once banned Alice in Wonderland because in it animals talked, thus putting themselves on a par with humans. Tsarist Russia, fearful lest moppets get fantastic ideas, banned Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. Last week New York Junior Leaguers, delighted by the interest the exhibition had aroused, extended it an extra week, talked of taking it on tour...
Largely inherited from Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Navy today is junk. This junk, Bolsheviks have thought, was good enough because no power with a first-class navy in the West was temperamentally the sort of power that would attack them unprovoked, while in the East they relied on their bombing planes to wipe out Tokyo should Japan hurl her navy against Vladivostok...
Since Kirov was assassinated not by an elderly Tsarist but by a youthful Communist, the expiation of his death by exile to Siberia of the sort of Russians who were being bundled off last week has been found, on a short term basis, peculiarly effective. Thus restive young Communists, many of them more or less disgusted with the Stalin Dictatorship, are not themselves "liquidated" but are terrorized by the liquidating of Tsarists, and relapse into useful Party obedience...
Apart from his public capacity, Banker Bark had been for years the adviser in private financial matters of King George's aunt, the late beauteous Empress of All the Russias Marie Feodorovna. sister of Britain's Queen Alexandra. Escaping to England after the Revolution, the Tsarist banker has prospered, today is Managing Director of the Anglo-International Bank. Said freshly-knighted Sir Peter Bark significantly: "My knighthood was conferred as a personal order from the King...
...Russia's millions in buying tractors, remains a tightwad as to railways, choosing to have hapless Soviet railwaymen shot for "sabotage" rather than buy them good modern rolling stock and signals, remains perhaps the Kremlin's major mystery. Last week Soviet trains were still being hauled by Tsarist locomotives, and after more than three full years of shooting Soviet railwaymen, Dictator Stalin's zealous Comrade Andrey Andreyev had had enough of being Commissar of Railways...