Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet radio's description of the start of hostilities. Finnish soldiers, the radio reported, "invaded" the Soviet Union three times on the night of Nov. 29-30. After the third attempt the Red Army lost its patience and at 8 a.m. the war was on (see p. 23). It was notable that the war was 16 hours old before any Soviet newspaper or radio got around to giving communiques...
...sure was U.S. Ambassador to Russia Laurence A. Steinhardt that there would not be war that he was caught off-base in Sweden, rushed back by special plane to Moscow where he had plenty to do expressing the U. S. Government's ideas on the war (see P...
...mile 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...
...Installed in the Casino de Bellevue is the leading eye, ear, nose & throat hospital of France, and the knitting and bandage-rolling centre of Biarritz is the famed Hotel du Palais, once a palace of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie. Wise old Madame la Marüchale Pütain, who is in charge of the knitting, carefully let it be known that women of all classes are welcome, sits nowadays clicking her needles benignly amid an assortment of serving maids, duchesses, peasants' wives, princesses, cooks...
...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...