Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cold and clear was the U. S. reaction to Russia's move. At the White House the President conferred with Statesmen Hull and Welles, spent 45 minutes with Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope. All day reports of Russian bombings of Helsinki came to the State Department from the U.S. Minister to Finland. At 6 p.m. Mr. Hull got word that in a raid of 15 planes, bombs had fallen near the U. S. legation, that buildings within three blocks were in flames...
...took advantage of clear weather to bomb Heligoland (which Britain traded for Zanzibar in 1890), claimed hits on two Nazi cruisers...
...clear, Comrade Molotov said, where the "attitude of the present Finnish Government lies." The Government of Finland "doesn't wish to maintain normal relations with the Soviet Union. It continues in its hostile attitude. . . . From such a Government and from its thoughtless military clique we can expect only fresh insolent provocations." For this reason, the U.S.S.R. had given order to the Army "to be ready for any surprise and immediately check possible fresh sallies...
...Finns thought that by changing their Government thus they could persuade Dictator Stalin to call off his war they were mistaken. Scarcely had they relayed word through to Moscow that a new Government was ready to deal with the Kremlin than out of the clear blue appeared a brand new, ready-made Finnish "People's Government" with a resounding program and declaration...
...surely, ever expected to draw up a simple "paper plan" and put it into practice as easily as you would change your summer oil. Fundamental social and economic changes are obviously necessary before the world's way of life can be brought to the perfection they seek. It is clear that Lord Halifax, while he may approve world union in principle, will oppose these very changes with all his power. Everything he and his party stand for--"reality," empire, and British hegemony--will have to be swept aside if world union is to come. It will be a tremendous...