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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whenever dictators want to wash dirty political linen, they run it through a plebiscite, and it comes out pure as Ivory Soap. Last week Soviet Russia made it perfectly clear that Eastern Poland had all along pined to be invaded. While the Moscow press carefully emphasized that there was complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Freedom of Opinion | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Every candidate was officially chosen for the ballot, and as there was no way of registering opposition except by crossing out all the names, results were gratifying. In Western Ukraine, 92.83% of the electorate took part, and 90.93% voted for the official panel of 1,484 men, 239 women; in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Freedom of Opinion | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Top hats, morning coats, decorations-all the regalia of a brilliant diplomatic party last week adorned the bodies of virtually all of France's Cabinet Ministers, most of her home diplomats, many of her social leaders, in one of the gloomiest caverns in Paris-the Gare du Nord. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Sir Ronald for Sir Eric | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Whether or not the details of these dispatches were accurate, they all added up to one conclusion: Russia was acting on some understanding with Germany to the effect that she should have a free hand aiding China against Germany's erstwhile partner. And they further suggested what Russia might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Bear's Paw | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

An air of gathering crisis hung stormily over Bucharest last week and Rumanians learned what it was to face a war of nerves. Abruptly called home for a diplomatic council of war were the Kingdom's envoys to Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria. Of these, astute Vasile Stoica, Ambassador to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Bessarabia and Breakfast | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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