Word: finnish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unter den Linden, in front of the U. S. S. R. Embassy, to watch big limousines pull up and discharge swankily dressed passengers. Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and 30 of his Foreign Office assistants, wearing the new Nazi diplomatic uniform, were among the first arrivals. The Finnish and Turkish diplomatic staffs arrived in top hats and cutaways, followed soon by similarly dressed Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian, U. S. envoys. Big German bankers, industrialists, Cinemactors Emil Jannings and Leni Riefenstahl trooped in. Editors and foreign correspondents presented their invitations...
MOSCOW--Negotiations on Russia's military and territorial demands against Finland came to a "definite end" tonight when the Finnish mission left for Helsinki and the Soviet press warned angrily that Finland is "on the brink of ruin...
Russians were told that Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko had made a speech at Helsinki in which he denounced "Russian imperialism" and cried, "There is a limit to everything. Finland cannot accept the proposals of the Soviet Union and will defend her territory and her inviolability and independence by all means!" Pravda headlined its story ERKKO INCITES TO WAR!, editorialized that this speech "cannot be understood except as an appeal for war against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." In Moscow only the diplomatic-journalistic colony was aware that Mr. Erkko never uttered the words quoted by Pravda...
Bolsheviks & Scandinavians. This was diplomatically crude work, since the negotiations were still supposed to be in the confidential stage. But in Moscow the Finnish Delegation, headed by former Premier Dr. Juho K. Paasikivi and Labor Leader V. A. Tanner, patiently kept the negotiations going and even dined with Dictator Stalin while the whole Scandinavian press began to shriek alarm and mobilized Finland grimly strengthened her defenses. (The overtaxed Finnish National Defense Organization had an inventive brainwave, announced that "by an ingenious device" Finnish dairy separators were being converted quickly into anti-gas purifiers...
...four nations that border on Rumania's frontier (Russia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria) only Yugoslavia can be considered as definitely friendly. The U.S.S.R. has never given up its claim to Bessarabia on the east, and last week Rumanians feared that as soon as Joseph Stalin was through talking with Finnish statesmen, he would send for King Carol's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Grigore Gafencu. Not for a moment has Hungary forgotten that the Treaties of Trianon and Versailles took Transylvania from her and gave it to Rumania. Most irredentist of all is Bulgaria, which has insisted year...