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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...People's Government" invited the Red Army to join it in a struggle against the Government at Helsinki and announced the formation of the First Finnish Army Corps which, it was said, will be "accorded the honor of bringing the banner of Finland's democratic republic into the capital and hoisting it on the roof of the Presidential Palace to the joy of the working people and to the awe of the enemies of the people." A warning was given, however, that the new Finland would not be a Soviet State, "because the Soviet regime cannot be established...
...State assistance in every form for the improvement of economies for the poor peasants, in the first place by alloting to them additional land, pastures and when possible also forests for their domestic needs, from lands confiscated from large landowners...
...Russia's course: "Strong powers are only forced to exert pressure on the weak when malicious and selfish advisers mislead a weak power to refrain from adjusting its neighborly relations." The whole Nazi press echoed the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung's charge: "It was Britain who first made the Baltic countries, especially Finland, strategically interesting to Russia by introducing foreign tensions. . . . Never trust the British-when things get critical they leave you in the lurch...
When the British first set up their wartime censorship apparatus, Lord Macmillan, Chief of the Ministry of Information, told correspondents that the censors had been instructed to delete or kill from their dispatches only information of a military nature. Matters political would not be touched. Last week tall, lanky Claud Cockburn, clever and daring editor of London's famed newsheet The Week, who because of his close Communist associations has pulled many a sensational political news beat, cabled to The Week's U. S. edition, now mimeographed in Manhattan, that the "Herren Censoren," as he called the British...
...This report is a lie," Mr. Stalin told the editor of Pravda ("Truth"), official Communist Party newsorgan. "But, however much the gentlemen of the Havas Agency may lie, they cannot deny that: First, it was not Germany who attacked France and England, but France and England who attacked Germany, assuming responsibility for the present...