Word: tsarists
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...Revolution debts of the Tsarist Government to be eventually settled by the present Soviet Government...
...have always found that any declarations made on this subject lead to Stock Exchange maneuvers by unscrupulous persons holding Tsarist securities. The Franco-Russian counter-claims will shortly be considered by a joint commission...
Meyerhold's Theatre. Last minute satires on Soviet life, plays suppressed under the Tsarist regime, a bizarrely staged modernistic Hamlet, and Roar, China! This last, by M. Tretyakov, who has recently returned from China, deals satirically with the present political muddle there...
...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...