Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Jubilant Negro dailies throughout the U. S. hailed last week the "race justice" of Soviet Russia's courts. In Moscow two white U. S. workmen, Lemuel ("Lem") Lewis of Detroit and William ("Bill") Brown of Toledo, had just been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for assaulting a Negro waiter in the mess hall of a Soviet factory-this crime being known to Red jurists as "racial Chauvinism...
...boisterous Bill & Lem were not clapped into a Moscow gaol last week. Higher Soviet authorities, closely attuned to U. S. white opinion, suspended the sentence of the lower court, ordered Bill & Lem deported, "because they are persons imbued with the spirit of race prejudice and therefore dangerous, menacing persons to have in Russia...
...Russian Government is ordered to pay the sum of $65,000,000 to Lena Goldfields Ltd., and this company's concession -the largest ever granted in Soviet Russia to foreign businessmen...
Would Russia obey this order? Could two private citizens successfully command a Great Power? How did they ever get to thinking that they could? Was this to be the historic test case on the outcome of which businessmen throughout the world may base their opinion of the Soviet State's good or bad faith...
...Guedalla. Of the Directors close-lipped Major Frederick Davis Gwynne is easily outstanding. He went to Moscow in 1925 and signed the original terms of the Concession Agreement, a Russian signatory being young Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov who has since risen until today he is Foreign Minister of the Soviet State. Last week the Soviet Embassy in London, acting upon orders from Comrad Litvinov, declared that the German and the Englishman who ordered Russia to pay Lena Ltd. $65,000,000 had absolutely no right or jurisdiction to do so, and that their act is a total nullity...