Word: russians
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stop immediately the American intervention in Russia. We call on you to lift what is virtually a blockade of European Russia. We call on you to stop American support of the Generals Denikin, Kolchak, and Yudenitch, and to initiate a policy of financial and economic aid to the Russian people...
...Russian revolution is not a Mexican revolution; Lenine as a statesman is the superior of Huerta. He has called your bluff twice, and twice you have backed down. You can not shift the responsibility, Mr. President; Winston Churchill, British Minister of War, declared in the House of Commons on November 6 that "the government's policy is not wholly a British policy, but one carried out in full co-operation with all the Allies, including the United States, who are equally responsible." In the words of Raymond Robbins, "Your policy has resulted not in stamping Bolshevism out, but in stamping...
...mutinied. They are engaged in carrying out an essentially un-American policy--that of armed intervention in a country against which the United States has not declared war. America stands for the principle of self-determination; America stands by the policy of a full and free development for the Russian people, unhampered by outside interference--a policy which you, Mr. President, announced. In this matter you may have changed your mind, but America...
Finally when he was asked if he advocated this policy of non-interference for the sake of the American soldiers in Russia or for the sake of the Russians, Professor Frankfurter answered: "For the sake of the Russian people. The only way that they can win their way back to a sane and normal condition is by being freed from the influence of all external forces...
...worse than the disease. No greater mistake could be made than to imagine that the Syndicalists and Sovietists of America are all foreigners. There is a large body of Americans--if by the term American is meant one born and bred in this country--who support the Russian revolution; and that does not make them Russians. When such a radical Americanizer approaches an immigrant, there is often no Conservative Americanizer present to compete with him. To take a single example: in a recent meeting of steel strikers in the Pittsburgh district, an investigating Senator asked all those present who could...