Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Georg Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Commissar of Foreign Affairs, went to his office, strutted and fretted, took him a pen and wrote big words full of sound and fury, signifying little...
...When Commissar Georg heard this, he penned...
Another major decision of the Council was to abolish dual commandership in the Army. Hitherto, each com-mander had attached to him a political commissar, or "archangel," as Comrade Krylenko, onetime Chief Com-mander of the Russian forces, called them. An order of a commander was invalid until countersigned by the commissar ; but such is the state of things in Russia that the Moscow autocrats can now trust their officers and are, incidently, enabled to raise their...
From the desk of Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires in London, to the desk of Georg Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Commissar for Foreign Affairs in Moscow, is about 1,600 miles as the crow flies. By means of the wireless, the brusque message (TIME, Dec. 1) of the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Austen Chamberlain, sped across the intervening space in next to no time; and the messages of Georg to Austen sped back by the same route. All this took place within a few days...
...most significant part of the second letter repudiated the contention that the Third or Communist Internationale is connected with the Government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Said the Commissar: "I am instructed by my Government to reiterate the declarations repeatedly made as to the complete political and administrative independence of the Communist Internationale from the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. My Government has never undertaken, and cannot undertake, to refuse the right of asylum to the Communist Internationale or to any other working-class organization. Still less, can it undertake to exercise pressure upon them...