Word: german
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baby, and regardless of how much truth lay behind sensational reports of joint action in the Near East being contemplated by Russia and Turkey to overwhelm Syria, Palestine and Iraq, it remained an arresting fact that in Moscow the official tone was markedly anti-British, anti-French and pro-German...
...official Soviet radio news summaries of proceedings in the House of Commons, pointed omission was made of Winston Churchill's declaration that Britain, France and Russia have a "common interest" in checking German agression. Moscow press and radio descriptions of Allied pulling of punches on the Western Front gave most Russians the definite impression that a truce to World War II was already at 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...
...speech by A. Hitler used to be the signal for every Soviet station to go on the air and try to drown him out. By order of J. Stalin all Soviet stations were respectfully silent during the Reichstag speech (see p. 34) and Russian listeners who understood German heard every word.* Soviet comment was uniformly favorable, particularly as to the Führer's claim that Eastern Europe is now a sphere of Soviet-German influence in which they will tolerate no intervention by Britain and France...
Meanwhile, Moscow hotels overflowed with constantly arriving representatives of German shipping, oil and rye firms as well as engineers sent to help the Soviet Union improve its backward transport systems. This week two big Nazi planes brought an Economic Delegation of 14, and after they conferred with Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov a communiqué announced that Russia will "immediately begin supplying Germany [raw] materials and Germany begin filling orders [of finished products...
...what J. Stalin wanted Russians to think, for the Dictator's control of press and radio is active and absolute, was a bland attitude toward Britain of "business as usual" taken by the Soviet Export Corp. The keen Bolshevik traders who run this big business saw merely that German submarines and mines in the Baltic blocked the usual Russian autumn shipments of timber to the British Isles. They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain...