Word: bessarabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least one good meal during the Christmas holidays. The blockade of the Reich, already as tight as Great Britain and France are able to make it, is becoming still more drastic due to war in the Baltic, and, if the Balkans blaze up too in a Soviet grab at Bessarabia, German scarcity may soon be back to the bare bones of 1918. Significantly, last week, Vierjahresplan, official magazine of Reich Economic Four-Year Plan Director Hermann Wilhelm Göring, declared: "We must face the facts. They are the same as in 1914-18. England's power has brought...
...lkischer Beobachter's prayer. In Moscow Communist International,official organ of the Communist Party, warned Rumania that she had better conclude an immediate pact with Russia, similar to those granted by the Baltic States and refused by unlucky Finland, and turn over the lost province of Bessarabia. In Moscow, New York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye said he had learned "from a highly qualified observer" that Rumania did not even intend to defend the province-had no fortifications and not a single soldier there, was evacuating Rumanian businesses from the area, was mobilizing behind the River Prut, which...
...Command made further show of this free feeling by sending home 3,000 of 27,000 civilian doctors who were mobilized for service in the West. Perhaps spring will find some of these doctors in French Syria with Weygand's Army, ready to stem a Russian march into Bessarabia, or to drive at Germany through the postern gate of erstwhile Poland...
According to Havas, Stalin also outlined to the Politburo on Aug. 19 the coming Soviet seizure of part of Poland and expansion in the Baltic, to be later followed if possible by taking Bessarabia from Rumania, establishing a Soviet zone of influence in Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria and finally attempting to drive a Russian corridor to the Adriatic...
...Since she sacrificed so much to gain Finland, she must be planning to follow up with something very soon. It is very likely that that 'something' will be the seizure of Bessarabia, which is now a part of Rumania. Russia lost three territories as a result of the last war: Finland, some parts of Poland, and Bessarabia. She has already regained two of them, and it is my guess that she may have it in mind to get back the third...