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Talk as the Germans and Russians might over expanding trade, up to this week no foreign correspondent in the Reich could report that he had seen the actual arrival of Russian goods in volume. Foreign diplomats wondered whether these big trade announcements were not calculated: 1) to scare the Allies; 2) to reassure the German people that this time a blockade would not be effective; 3) to persuade doubting Germans that the Russians were, after all, reliable allies. Anent this thesis, the New York Herald Tribune's peripatetic Joseph Barnes, who specializes in listening to streetcar conversations and talking...
...occasion when a Baltic Foreign Minister was hard-pressed for concessions by Soviet Foreign Commissar and Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov and his aides, Comrade Stalin walked into the conference room, put his arm around the visitor's shoulder, smiled benignly, said: "Never mind, I'll protect you from these great Russians." > At a similar conference with another Baltic official Dictator Stalin varied his remark: "You know, these militarists want everything, but I am a politician and I can compromise." Result: The Russian demands were pared down. > When one Baltic Minister brought up the question of what...
...been told in detail the Russian demands, but nobody had much difficulty in guessing that they exceeded the Finnish idea of independence and neutrality. The political atmosphere indicated that a major national crisis was at hand and that this would probably be the tell-tale week. Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, in a big patriotic rally, said that a "period of nerve-testing" was at hand. "The time is difficult," Press Chief Urho Toivola admitted. "We feel our freedom and independence are threatened." Early this week 300 Finns gathered outside the Helsinki Hotel at which U. S. Minister H. F. Arthur...
Ambassador Stoica had just conferred in Ankara with Turkish Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu, who in turn had just returned from nearly a month of desultory negotiations in Moscow with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, negotiations which finally collapsed. When he went to Moscow, Mr. Saracoglu was believed to be acting not only for Turkey but also as "honest broker" for Rumania in the touchy question of Bessarabia, the rich province which Rumania seized from Russia in 1918. Last week, after King Carol had received full particulars of what Ambassador Stoica had been able to learn from the Turkish Foreign Minister...
...blockade have been registered by Argentina, Chile, Japan, The Netherlands, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries, the U. S. But these complaints were private. Last week Germany's big new friend Russia complained formally, officially. In a note handed at Moscow to British Ambassador Sir William Seeds, Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin found the interests of neutral countries gravely impaired, international trade destroyed...