Word: warships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
These words were spoken by Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis to a newspaper reporter as he was being ferried over the Golden Horn to a British warship. He had just finished his last ministrations in the Greek Cathedral at Constantinople, had handed over his ecclesiastical powers to the Holy Synod, and was on his way to the great Greek Orthodox monastery of Mount Athos, in Greece. He had steadfastly resisted Turkish power in " internationalized '' Constantinople. His departure was demanded not only by the Turks, but urged by Venizelos as the only possible means of bringing agreement at the Lausanne Conference...
...Mohammed V, July 3, 1918. On November 3, 1922, he was dethroned by the Kemalists, who declared an end to the Ottoman Empire and elected Abdul Medjid Effendi, cousin of Mohammed and heir to the Sultanate, to the Caliphate. The ex-Sultan then made his escape on a British warship and was later landed at Madeira, whence he accepted the hospitality of King Hussein. In the confusion of his flight he was compelled to leave his harem in Constantinople...
...virtual ultimatum, which incensed the Soviet Government. "Don't dictate," say the Bolsheviki, "we are ready to negotiate on equal terms, but we will not be led!" That is the gist of the Soviet reply to Curzon. Much capital has been made out of a British warship, which is now in the White Sea, but it is certain that neither Britain nor Russia has any intention of going to war. The most that can happen is the abrogation of the trade agreement and the consequent withdrawal of the British Commercial Mission from Russia. Russia has proved no El Dorado...