Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Russia arrived again at the Finland Station, but this time it was really Finland and the trains were running West. As Russia's westward expansion hit the border of the little Baltic country and she presented her demands to Finland's envoy to Moscow, she also presented President Roosevelt with a major problem in statecraft. It forced on him what correspondents did not hesitate to call "the most delicate and momentous" decision of his career...
Reporters scurrying to check up found that current U. S. diplomacy looked good in Finland and Russia. Thin, hardheaded, 47-year-old Ambassador Steinhardt in Moscow got a reputation for keenness as a lawyer, a trade expert, a ballyhoo-proof prophet of the 1929 crash, long before he won a diplomatic reputation in South America. Genial, portly Arthur Schoenfeld in Helsinki, a diplomatic trouble shooter, was sent to Finland two and a half years...
Stalin and Saracoglu. Meanwhile, an endless stream of code cablegrams played ring around Europe between the Turkish Military Mission in London, Turkish President Ismet Inönü at Ankara and Turkish Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu who was now becoming a permanent fixture at Moscow, conferring every few days with Stalin and Molotov...
...Moscow the 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...
...Turks were still hesitating at latest reports but Russians considered it significant that Foreign Minister Saracoglu did something in Moscow which no foreign statesman has ever done before: he laid a wreath on the blood-red marble tomb of Nikolai Lenin in the Red Square...