Word: forli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Ultimatum." But Delegate Suritz is withal no great orator, and when the ghost of collective security walked the cold halls of the vast Palace of Peace at Geneva last week, he stayed at his hotel. Finnish Delegate Rudolf Holsti called upon the League to give Finland "all practical support possible...
Comrade Suritz is a seasoned Soviet diplomat. He once headed a Soviet mission to Afghanistan, where he greased Afghan palms so well that that mountainous kingdom came to lean toward the Soviet Union more than toward Great Britain. Later he laid the foundation for a long Turkish-Russian friendship, and...
Expulsion. The Council took up the matter and immediately found that "by its act the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has placed itself outside the League of Nations. It follows that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is no longer a member of the League." And so for the first...
To obtain the necessary "unanimous" vote condemning Soviet Russia in the Assembly, although unanimous notes are not necessarily there, President Carl J. Hambro, also Speaker of Norway's Storting (Parliament), tried an old parliamentary trick. He simply acked all those in favor of the resolution to remain seated. No...
For Finland, the League thus did more than was ever done for Greece (in the Corfu dispute), China, Ethiopia, Spain, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland. The League's Secretariat was set to work to coordinate and classify Finland's more pressing needs, and the prospects seemed good that...