Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indeed Soviet leaders are none too sure of Ambassador 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...
That Councilor Bogomoloff might not occupy his spare time by Russian secret service in Britain, Ambassador Sokolnikov paid a formal visit to Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, gave formal pledges that the Soviet Government would not engage in propaganda either in Britain or in any of the Dominions...
From the bleak little Siberian town of Habarovsk flashed news last week of an informal meeting between one Tsai Yun-shen, representing China-and one Simbn-ovsky, Soviet. Deploring the Sino-Russian dispute, they signed a peace protocol. The terms: Immediate restoration of joint management of the Chinese Eastern Railway (cause of all the strife); withdrawal of the Soviet army from Manchuria; mutual release of civilian and military prisoners; mutual reopening of consulates; a formal conference at Moscow, Jan. 25, to settle all questions still under dispute. World chancelleries took note, awaited word of the Moscow agenda...
...Rust demonstrates that whereas few outsiders know what is happening in Russia, the Russians themselves are beginning to find out. A Soviet satire by V. Kirchon and A. Ouspensky, its hero is a great-nosed fellow called Terekhine who uses his prestige as a revolutionary soldier to bully his comrades and preempt their women. When Nina, whose "bourgeois" yearnings for wifehood and maternity have not been stifled by propaganda, tells Terekhine she is pregnant, he curses. When he has persuaded her to have an abortion and she still pesters him, he murders...
...play ends with Terekhine's crime discovered and his punishment in the offing. He obviously represents the gamut of hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger...