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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian accounts the long night of Nov. 29-30 was a lively one along the Russo-Finnish border west and north of Lake Laatokka. At 2 a. m., at 3:15 a. m., again at 4 a. m., Finnish soldiers "invaded" Russia (according to Moscow). To punish this "aggression," the Red Army, signaled by green rockets, started rolling at 8 a. m...
...from the border to make impossible such reports. The Cabinet met early and at noon Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko telegraphed to Baron Yrjo-Koskinen the text of another Finnish note. The note had not arrived when the baron was called to the Russian Foreign Office at 10:30 p. m. There was wide suspicion that it had been deliberately held up in transmission. At any rate, Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin had other business to transact with Minister Yrjo-Koskinen. He handed the baron his passport, told him that diplomatic relations between Russia and Finland were broken. When...
...Vanderbilt), Elsa Maxwell, Maxine Elliott. Danger of war between France and Italy having finally ebbed, the French Government last week turned the Menton-Cannes section of the Riviera back from a military to a civil zone and the Monte Carlo casino was in full blast daily from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m...
...aide of Madame la Mar&#;chale is the famed French heroine-nurse of World War I who as Mile Georgette Saint-Paul won the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with two palms and two 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...
...embarrassment of the Government of Premier Edouard Daladier. For over a year the Premier has ruled his country with a firm-and sometimes heavy-hand by the simple expedient of persuading the French Parliament to grant him powers to issue decrees having the force of law. Before September M. Daladier's favorite argument for such powers was the deepening European crisis. Since September he has had an even better selling point...