Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Pressure was applied on Sunday, when the Red Army reported an incident-on the border which, the Soviet Union claimed, killed or wounded 13 soldiers. Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dispatched a note to Finland immediately demanding that Finnish troops be moved from twelve to 15 miles back of the border. On Monday the Finns formally disavowed the incident, replied with a refusal to move their troops unless the Soviet Union did likewise. After that the Finnish-Soviet timetable was crowded with angry notes, inflammatory speeches, useless diplomatic parleys...
...Erkko telegraphed to Baron Yrjo-Koskinen the text of another Finnish note. The note had not arrived when the baron was called to the Russian Foreign Office at 10:30 p. m. There was wide suspicion that it had been deliberately held up in transmission. At any rate, Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin had other business to transact with Minister Yrjo-Koskinen. He handed the baron his passport, told him that diplomatic relations between Russia and Finland were broken. When Minister Yrjo-Koskinen got back to the Finnish Legation he found the note and dispatched...
Later, Gospodin Kuusinen and Premier-Foreign Commissar Molotov initiated in Moscow a "mutual assistance" treaty between the two Governments which, it was significantly said, will be formally signed later in Helsinki. The Soviet Union, having cut off all communication with the now unrecognized Finnish Government, paid little heed to appeals delivered through third parties. As it began to appear more & more that the Finns would have to fight it out, Premier Ryti stout-heartedly declared: "We will not consent to bargain away our independence. . . . We will fight alone and we expect...
...Soviet Government announced, Finnish troops suddenly opened artillery fire on Soviet troops stationed near Mainil, on the Karelian Isthmus, where Finns have their strongest fortifications. Four Red Army soldiers were killed, nine wounded. That was all Soviet Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov needed to call in Finnish Ambassador Baron Aarno Armas Yrjo-Koskinen and hand him a note...
...Moscow it was officially announced that Japanese Ambassador Shigenori Togo and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov had found a "community of views ... on the fundamental principles upon which a Soviet-Japanese trade agreement must be based." In recent Russian diplomacy, non-aggression pacts have followed trade agreements as faithfully as the little lamb trailed Mary...