Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train puffed out. M. Rosengolz and staff proceeded to Berlin where they were to confer with Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, now sojourning "for his health" in the western political cockpit...
...Victoria Station, within eight minutes' brisk walk of Buckingham Palace, there gathered last week several hundred British Laborites, led by the Right Honorable Arthur Henderson, to cheer and wave good-by to the Soviet Russian Chargé d'Affaires, A. P. Rosengolz, now banished with his staff from Britain by decree of the Baldwin Cabinet (TIME, June 6) backed by a Conservative majority in the House of Commons...
...jaded, world-traveled Correspondent Walter Duranty of the New York Times who thus described last week with sly enthusiasm the notorious Madame Borodin, wife of the Soviet Russian emissary to Chinese Communists, Michael Borodin. When Mme. Borodin was captured by Chinese anti-Communist troops near Shanghai (TIME, March 21), many a non-Communist thought, "Serves her right!" What sort of treatment has Mme. Borodin received? She told last week in the bare, white-walled waiting-room of a prison at Peking...
...basest War Lord," keeps a string of over 100 concubines, and has often put to death every living soul in captured villages. His superior, the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, at Peking, evidently instructed that Mme. Borodin should be gently treated because of the might of Soviet Russia...
...thus to confuse further an already delicate issue would seem extremely unwise. How the matter will be settled remains to be seen, but it appears that Russia has been placed in a much more awkward position than Poland, and it will probably require very acute statesmanship to save the Soviet from discredit both at home and abroad...