Word: tsarists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make Inner Mongolia independent of both Soviet Russia and China, would make it "a haven of refuge for homeless White Russians." The five Mongols solemnly nodded their heads. Up went the general's Satanic mustachios. "I can provide 50,000 trained White Russians who have served in the Tsarist forces," said he. "The Mongolians can provide 100,000 trained cavalrymen...
...Manchuria. In 1922 he went to the U. S., spent six days in New York City's Ludlow Street Jail when a Soviet company sued him for $500,000 worth of woolens he had seized in Siberia. He claimed Japanese-British bankers had seized $60,000,000 the Tsarist government had entrusted...
President Svinhufvud is famed and beloved chiefly because his efforts to free the former Grand Duchy of Finland from Russia landed him at first in an even bleaker place than Finland, namely the Tsarist prisons of Siberia. In 1914 six Tsarist Secret Police marched into Judge Svinhufvud's Court, arrested him for sedition, chased everyone out of the courthouse, sealed it with the Double Eagle of Imperial Russia and lodged their prisoner in a Finnish jail whence he would be deported to Siberia. Indomitable Mrs. Svinhufvud took in boarders while her husband languished in Siberian exile, visited him every...
...State Bank in Moscow, where they saw the collection of Tsarist jewels and plate and Mr. Shaw handled a crown worth...
...Shaw's meek wife stayed at home after Lady Astor promised to take good care of him. †Later last week workmen repairing the Kremlin came upon a secret vault containing more Tsarist gold and jewels...