Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social secretary to the White House in the Coolidge Administration, he held that delicate post until its duties were transferred to a division of protocol in the state department. Attaché Moffat's most important previous diplomatic work was with the U. S. Legation in Warsaw during Soviet Russia's brief attempt to conquer Poland in 1920-days that brought him in touch with Herbert Hoover and Cardinal Achille Ratti, now Pope Pius XI. In a dingy Geneva office, proudly titled the Treaty Registration Room of the League of Nations Secretariat, he carefully signed three state papers, then...
...Placed the Labor Government in a technical minority by passing 42 to 21 (with 674 absences and abstentions) a resolution which deplored Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's recognition of Soviet Russia (TIME, Nov. 18). The vote came after a sneering, sarcastic harang by the Earl of Birkenhead, bitter Moscow-phobe. "I am almost convinced by the Government's orators," said the bitter Earl, "that Soviet propaganda is either wholly innocuous or positively beneficial to Great Britain. Perhaps we ought to subsidize...
Paradox of the debate: Anglo-Soviet rapprochement was vigorously though un successfully championed by the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, who thundered: "I favor the creation of some direct channel through which we may protest the Soviet oppression of ministers of religion...
Doubtless Mr. Cohen's knowledge of the Soviet situation is most profound: but his statements on Mussollni make plain that his knowledge of Fascism in the U. S. is altogether piteous and incomprehensible coming from one who claims to be well versed in international affairs. Joseph F. Solano...
Professor Baxter, writing for a group of laymen whose knowledge of the subject is at best meagre, gives as the reasons of the U. S. not recognizing the Soviet Union, first the failure of the Soviet government to acknowledge the debts of preceding governments, second, the unwillingness of the Russian government to restore or make compensation for confiscated property of American citizens, and third, the alleged participation of the Russian government in propaganda conducted in foreign slates by the Third International. In not exposing these reasons as the shallow mockeries they are, Professor Baxter is guilty of almost criminal negligence...