Word: bolshevik
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From the Revolution in 1917 until she joined the League in 1934, Russia's relations with Germany were far better than with Great Britain and France. First the Allies tried intervention to overthrow the Bolshevik regime. At the Genoa Conference of 1922 Russia was offered money and aid only if capitalism were restored. Russia was excluded from Locarno in 1925. Things got so bad by 1927 that London police raided the offices of Arco Ltd., the Soviet Trading Company, finding nothing, and Russia and Great Britain finally broke off all diplomatic relations...
...idea of collective security; abroad he had represented Russia's desire for collective security. It was not Litvinoff but collective security that fell. To symbolize Russia's new reliance on herself, Joseph Stalin picked a man who represented the state bureaucracy he had created. An old-guard Bolshevik, Molotov was a quiet political boss who had risen through hard, unspectacular work to be President of the Council of People's Commissars (Premier) and a member of the powerful Politbureau. In Russia he was known as the father of the collective farm movement...
Timoshenko. In naming the new Defense Commissar, Dictator Stalin also let it be known for the first time who brought to its victorious conclusion the Finnish campaign. Both were the same man, Marshal Semion Timoshenko. The Marshal is a Bolshevik so comparatively obscure that the latest edition of the Soviet Encyclopedia gives him not a line...
Almost every U. S. business bigwig who has been to Moscow knows slender, dry, efficient Spencer Williams. Most of them have rushed to him at one time or another for help in dealing with Bolshevik mountains of red tape...
...once did to Britain's George VI; 3) greeted His Holiness with "three profound bows." Most extraordinary surmise as to the text of Pope and Minister's secret conversation came from Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times. He thought the German had proposed an anti-Bolshevik crusade...