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...Robert Bacon, Secretary of State under Roosevelt and Ambassador to France under Taft, introduced a bill into Congress. Last week General Emilio Aguinaldo who led the Philippine insurrection over 25 years ago, now a good and pro-U. S. citizen in the Islands was moved to register his emphatic protest against the Bacon bill...
...redheaded" Winston Churchill, ultra-reactionary Chancellor of the British Exchequer, alarmist par excellence, hurled defiance at the Soviet government last week in terms so abusive as to make a diplomatic protest from Russia all but inevitable...
This tirade followed a reply by the Soviet government to Britain's note of protest (TIME, June 21) against the alleged contribution by the Soviet government itself of funds to support striking British workers. Like the British note the Soviet reply was couched in mild terms. The Soviet government denied that it had sent the funds in question, but refused to take steps to prevent its closely interlocked labor organizations from sending "Red gold" to Britain...
...Churchill's outburst jibed ill with a statement by Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks to the Commons that "the Government does not propose to terminate its official protest by renouncing the Anglo-Russian trade agreement-nor does the Government propose to stop any Russian money sent to aid the coal miners. . . . The total sum so transmitted now amounts...
...Stiff Protest. Goaded by Tory ire, the Baldwin Government addressed a stiff protest to the authorities at Moscow last week complaining that the Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement of 1921 had been violated by the Soviet Government in despatching funds to the support of the British "general strike" (TIME, May 10 et seq.). No mention was made of funds now passing from Moscow to London? though £30,000 was thus added to the coal strikers' war chest last week?because the "coal strike" had not yet been officially declared "subversive" (as was the "general strike" but still retained the character...