Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sokolnikov's loyalty. So accompanying him to St. James's Palace was Dmitri Bogomoloff, Councilor of the Embassy, recently Minister to Poland, reorganizer of Moscow's entire Foreign Intelligence Service. It was no secret to most foreign observers that Councilor Bogomooff's real job in London would be to follow every move of Ambassador Sokolnikov, to report directly to Stalin himself...
...Major added that his charge is not expected to resume his post at the Foreign Office for "several months." Rumors are current in London that H. R. H. combats insomnia with white powders, one school of rumor holding that they are ordinary sleeping powders...
...Good Morrow!'" cabled London correspondents, "has stirring crescendos and rich harmonic effects...
...policy in regard to the Hoover-MacDonald Five Power Naval Conference which might prove obnoxious to many U. S. patriots. Quizzed at a joint session of the Chamber's Naval and Foreign Affairs Committees, the squarejawed, pugnacious Prime Minister rapped: "No final decision will be taken at the London Conference. It is merely preliminary to the Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations at Geneva, where a definite agreement will be sought...
Tardieu will himself head the French Delegation at London, with his great and famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand in second place, and Minister of Marine Georges Leygues, whose whiskers seem as wide as the seas themselves, in third. Though M. Briand is nothing if not conciliatory, he shares with M. Tardieu and most Frenchmen a shrewd wish to link the U. S. in disarmament with the League...