Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even nastier mood. For this time the French envoy was acting for Rumania, and Rumania is anathema to all Red Russians, who consider that she stole Bessarabia from them while they were fighting the White Russians and the Allies in 1918. Worse still, the Rumanian note was an echo (by request) of Statesman Stimson's reminder that Russia must not steal anything from anybody. Mr. Stimson had managed to get less than a half dozen of the 57 Kellogg Pact nations to send such reminders, but in Moscow the joke was wearing very thin...