Word: french
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand. Red Fleet, organ of the Soviet Navy, while noting that Britain and France have a superiority in tonnage of 374% over the Reich Navy, argued that German "blows to the British merchant marine on the seas and in ports, simultaneously with repeated air attacks on [British and French] industrial centres can lead to rapid, decisive results. . . . The treaty of friendship and development of economic relations with the Soviet Union and the security of Baltic trade routes make Germany independent of sea transport passing through the North...
Third International. Soviet organs raked the French Cabinet savagely for its suppression of the French Communist Party, and at Moscow last week the long somnolent Third International, whose business is to foment "the World Revolution of the World Proletariat," was again heard from in a broadside by V. Florin. He appealed to "workers of the World" to "fight against capitalistic warmongers...
...desultory Oriental bargaining between Stalin and Saracoglu turned upon what Turkey will do in case Russia alone or Russia and Germany or Germany alone should now decide to invade the Balkans. Stalin was reputedly pressing Saracoglu to agree that in any event Turkey would bar the British and French fleets from passing through the Dardanelles into the Black Sea to bolster up the Balkans. And in Ankara this same demand was vigorously made by German Ambassador Franz von Papen...
...summer long were the object of Fascist journalistic abuse, now get more or less fair press treatment. The Italian public has been reminded very seldom, if at all, that it was diabolical Britain which pushed sanctions against Italy four years ago and the once vociferous Italian claims on French-owned Tunisia, Corsica, Savoy, Nice and Djibouti have not been discussed out loud...
...short & snappy French Army communiques are now published beside the much longer German reports. Cinemaudiences are warned to refrain from applauding the armies of either side as they appear on the screen and the entire Italian public has been counseled not to show partisanship in Europe's big quarrel...