Word: british
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain were today fighting to "defend the very principle on which the League was founded," that they were indeed at war with the chief "author of European aggression"-Adolf Hitler. The Finns welcomed the moral support, but pressed for greater assurances of more material aid. In Moscow the British and French League speeches were described in the Soviet press as having "exceeded all previous limits of cynicism and hypocrisy...
...Finland was important, but not more so than the deep-seated hatred harbored by capitalist countries for the land of Communism. Moreover, with Germany, Italy and Japan out, the League has become more & more a unilateral organization headed by France and Britain and composed of neutrals dependent upon British and French good will. A many-sided League never did agree on any forceful action: a one-sided League last week...
Early this month the Nazi press in Germany trained its biggest propaganda guns on Foreign Minister Sandier, accusing him, among other things, of "pro-British" actions. But that was not what removed him. Long had Foreign Minister Sandier advocated fortifying, with Finnish cooperation, the strategic Aland Islands guarding the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia. He especially urged it when Russia began her diplomatic pressure on Finland. Moreover, Mr. Sandier was the spokesman of those friends of Finland who believed that Scandinavian neutrality was indivisible...
This amounted to confirmation that the much-touted "Military Alliance" was simply a false front by which Herr Ribbentrop hoped to scare the British and French into making further concessions a la Munich...
Year ago in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, "spontaneous" demands for "Tunisia! Corsica! Djibouti!" all French protectorates, were vociferously raised. Last week Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda, lamented that the two outlets to Italy's mare nostrum, the Mediterranean, were "closed," suggested it would be nice for Italy if British-owned Gibraltar and British-protected Suez changed hands...