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...Since this melodramatic raid has been carried out by Scotland Yard, I admit the necessity for taking action. But abrogation of Russia's special trade privileges, and prosecution of all alleged spies and agitators ought to be enough to satisfy our honor...
...citizens the chief fizzle of the week was a "revelation" by Premier Baldwin of names and addresses of persons in the U. S. seized during the British raid. The list contained only 15 names of persons so obscure that public interest flagged utterly. Reporters, sleuthing diligently, came upon nothing to indicate that even one of these humans is "a dangerous Red." Typical was Miss Elizabeth Braun, a 22-year-old proofreader, boarding with one Editor Max Bedacht of The Communist and his wife at No. 3101 Nordica Ave., Chicago...
Young Feodor and friends would turn cartwheels, climb roofs and trees, shoot catapults, raid gardens, eat ripe poppy seeds. He was eight when he first saw the clown Yashka, a stout old man with ridiculously angry eyes in his coarse face...
Premier Baldwin's brief speech to the House of Commons on Tuesday left little doubt as to whether Britain or Soviet Russia had committed the breach of confidence. A police raid on Soviet House in London secured conclusive evidence that the Russian trade officials, under cover of commercial activities, had used their facilities as a center for the Red International, that vaguely sinister organization devoted to military espionage and subversive activities throughout the Empire, and North and South America as well. Communist agitators were trained on ships of the Russian trading companies with a view to subsequent service on British...
...remaining 28 are Metropolitan Boroughs. Over all extends the activity of the Metropolitan Police, a State police controlled by the Home Secretary who is responsible to Parliament. The Metropolitan Police have headquarters at New Scotland Yard; whereas the "City Police" have headquarters near Guildhall. In the case of the raid described above, the procedure was for the Home Secretary to authorize the Metropolitan Police to apply for a search warrant at Guildhall, armed with which they carried out their raid. Other Metropolitan police services are the "King's Household Police," the "Royal Marine Police," the "War Department Constabulary...