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It was surprising that Russia's Premier Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov took no trouble to make King Carol's capitulation easy. On the contrary, he handed Rumanian Minister Gheorghe Davidescu a brusque note demanding Bessarabia and northern Bucovina within 24 hours. The ceding of northern Bucovina, which, unlike Bessarabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Russia on the March Again | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

Peace Coup? Under Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, China has superabundant morale for resistance, but determination will not ground enemy airplanes or choke rifles. So strong, however, is the determination of the present Chungking Government that even if Japan cuts off most of China's supplies, their capitulation is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: Three Years of War | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

A happy, happy man was Adolf Hitler last week. German newsreels pictured him in a French garden, receiving word of the French capitulation. The Führer snapped his fingers, kicked his heels, chortled and goose-stepped off to his office to contemplate the fact that Hitler-Europe had become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hitler's Hitlers | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

Not every Frenchman - and no Englishman - accepted the Compiegne armistice terms. In London General Charles de Gaulle, the 50-year-old Under Secretary for War in Paul Reynaud's Cabinet, who for years had argued in vain for greatly expanded mechanization of the Army, appealed for continued resistance to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: London v. Bordeaux | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

39. Dutch Foreign Minister van Kleffens in his capitulation statement shocked the world by claiming that:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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