Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pact concretely provided only for German credits for Russian supplies and for "consultations" if peace should be refused. In Berlin, inspired stories promised Russian planes on the Western Front; in London the dominant reaction was relief; in Rome it was uneasiness. But in Moscow, Times Correspondent George Eric Rowe Gedye, noted readers waiting in their queues-more than a quarter-mile long-to buy Pravda, read the German-Russian peace proposal, gripped with "fear that they were about to be dragged into...
...other side of Europe things were getting tough for Italy. In Moscow, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Joseph Stalin divided Poland with not so much as a by-your-leave to Benito Mussolini, who wants an ethnic Polish state where 20,000,000 good Polish Catholics might live with the blessing of the Pope. The Balkans, which Italy thought would turn to her while Germany was at war, turned to Russia instead...
Polish policemen, identified in Soviet minds with Capitalism, were hunted from house to house, new Soviet police were described as "Workers' Guards." The Moscow radio announced that battalions of peasants were tracking down former Polish landlords who were hiding in the marshes and forests, clapping them into jail, added: "All their lands, livestock and personal belongings are being divided among the peasantry." Reported seized near Krzemieniec was one of Poland's greatest landlords, Prince Janusz Radziwill, president of the Polish Red Cross and head of one of the four most ancient and historic families in Poland. Captured near...
...Moscow the Red Army newsorgan Red Star published the text of leaflets given to Russian soldiers before they were started out for Poland, assuring them that the Generals and officers of the Polish Army had fled and containing appeals from the Polish populace for "liberation." In London, the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post reported that famed Karl Radek, who was the No. 1 Soviet publicist up to 1937 when he got ten years in jail for plotting with Nazis, has actually been "busy in Moscow since last March organizing Polish Bolsheviks for the very situation which has now developed." Reports from...
Negley Parson, lately in South Africa for the London Daily Mail, was recuperating from an operation in a Copenhagen hospital. Eventually he planned to go to Moscow. Walter Duranty was in Rome. John Gunther had sailed from London, bound for Manhattan to be with his ailing wife. All three had signed to write for the North American Newspaper Alliance; and Duranty hoped he would be among the ten U. S. correspondents to be picked by the British Army Council for front-line service in France...