Word: bolshevik
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Last week's despatches told a simple story and, like many such, its signifi- cance was great. The story was that Bolshevik Russia had reformed its internal trade policy, permitted private capitalists to operate, begun what was known as the " 'Newest' Economic Policy...
News came from Moscow that an ordinary court of law had annulled the Sakhalin Island concession granted by the Bolshevik Government in 1923 to the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co. on the ground that the Company had failed to keep its agreements. At Moscow, it was said that the case would not be take to a court of appeal, though a representative of Harry F. Sinclair in the U. S. averred that it would be appealed. The sum of $100,000, paid to the Bolshevik Government as a guarantee of fulfillment, was ordered to be returned...
...suggested in well-informed circles that the Bolshevik Government annulled the concession on the ground that the U. S. had not been induced to recognize Russia; but, not being willing to cancel the contract on this ground, a technical reason was found. Whatever the cause of the Russian Government's action, it at least provided an object lesson to others of the difficulty of dealing with an unrecognized government...
There remains to be considered the fact that, at the time the Sinclair concession was made, the Bolshevik Government was making recognition overtures to the Japanese Government and that Japanese troops were occupying Northern Sakhalin, which accounted for the inability of the Sinclair interests to work its concession. There is nothing to prove collusion between the Japanese and the Bolsheviki to void the Sinclair concession; but, in the Russo-Japanese treaty (Protocol B., Article 1) signed Jan. 20, 1925, it was expressly provided that Japanese were to receive "concessions for the exploitation of 50% of the area of every...
Near East Relief. Comrade Rykov and a number of Bolshevik dignitaries visited the headquarters of the Near East Relief at Tiflis (a U. S. organization). M. Rykov inspected 8,000 Armenian orphans for whom the Relief is caring, spoke to them in Armenian, told them that they were victims of an imperial war and that under the freedom of the Bolsheviki they will never more be subject to the atrocities which their ancestors suffered at the hands of the Turks. He then kissed several of the children, expressed complete satisfaction with the work of the Relief...