Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...announcement of the armistice signed at Riga between Poland and Soviet Russia, while not entirely unexpected, comes, nevertheless, as welcome news. From the time when Hoskiusko and his followers, failing in their efforts to gain their own freedom, crossed the seas and fought successfully for ours, Poland and America have been firm friends. It was with anxiety and resentment that Americans watched the advance of the Red army upon the Polish borders; anxiety for the courageous little State, resentment that our own officialdom should do no more than write another note to Moscow. But, thanks to the fighting qualities...
...remain so is another question. The country has so long been a buffer state that the European nations have come to regard it as martial currency in their diplomatic barter and trade, and may not easily break them selves of so fixed a habit. Nor is the word of Soviet Russia to be trusted implicitly. Under such conditions, and with Germany casting sheep's eyes at the port of Danzig, Poland enters upon her first peaceful and truly organized period of existence as a republic...
...view in conducting courses of instruction, but the idea that the action of a faculty committee in allowing a professor to resign is open to challenge by the student body is a novel one. We look with distrust upon the proposal of the News to establish a "student soviet" court...
During the war Colonel Roustam-Bek saw active service with the British Volunteer Forces in France. At present he is attached to the Soviet Embassy in Washington as an expert on military affairs. His position previous to the war as a war correspondent of the London Daily Express won him a reputation of being one of the keenest military experts in the field; this knowledge and his experience in the war will make it possible for him to present the military aspects of the Russian situation in a comprehensive and authoritative manner...
Colonel Roustam-Bek, formerly a war correspondent for the London Daily Express, is at present attached to the Soviet Embassy in Washington as a military expert. During the war he served with the British Volunteer Forces in France...