Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Government hereby calls the entire Finnish people to a determined struggle for the overthrow of the tyranny of hangmen and war provocateurs. The reactionary, avid plutocracy which in 1918, aided by the troops of foreign imperialists, drowned democratic freedom of the Finnish toiling people in a sea of blood, transformed our country into a White-Guard hell for toilers...
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...
...Rome some 300 uniformed Fascist youths, returning from afternoon drill, broke ranks and demonstrated violently in front of the Soviet Embassy. Most Italian papers were cautious in their comments but Il Telegrafo, organ of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, disapprovingly observed, "In the great Nordic plain of the Continent the wolves are having their...
...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...
...stars, Müdaille des Epidemics, the U. S. Certificate of Merit. She is now Mrs. T. Bentley Mott, wife of the head of the American Fund for French Wounded, Colonel Mott, onetime liaison officer between Marshal Foch and General Pershing. The whole Biarritz colony, French and foreign, are exceptionally war-work-minded, last week were furiously getting truckloads of warm clothing, cigarets and sweets off to the Maginot Line for Christmas...