Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalin might also propose a Russo-French pact patterned after the Russo-Czechoslovak agreement or the Russo-French (Stalin-Laval) mutual assistance treaty of 1935. General de Gaulle might well hold out for something bigger. He is known to favor a modern version of the Triple Entente (1907-1917) that bound Tsarist Russia with France and Britain. France might again become the link between Russia and Britain...
Maurice Thorez had been the ideological father of Leon Blum's Popular Front. In the middle '30s Frenchmen called him "the French Stalin." During the period of the Russo-German pact, he had condemned France's "imperialist" war against Nazi Germany. When the Daladier Government outlawed the French Communist Party in September 1939, Thorez deserted from the Army, went underground...
...Joachim von Ribbentrop and Viacheslav Molotov had signed the Russian-German pact in Moscow. Twelve hours after its ratification on Aug. 31, Hitler gave the signal that sent the German armored divisions rumbling across the frontier against the Polish cavalry, the Luftwaffe against the all but defenseless Polish cities. Thus, on the fifth anniversary of World War II, the war was back where it started...
Xavier Pruszynski's Russian Year, a brilliantly written travel book, includes a notable account of Russia's revolting treatment of the 2,000,000 Poles interned in the Soviet area after the German-Russian Pact. A 37-year-old journalist assigned to the Polish Embassy in Moscow, Pruszynski was there when General Sikorski arrived to negotiate with Stalin for their release. Pruszynski's observation is keen, his humor quick and spontaneous. Russian Year is possibly the best firsthand report on Russia since the war began...
...Soviet Russia, like most countries, would like to have friendly neighbors. Finland, run by Ryti, Mannerheim, Tanner, and Linkomies, is irrevocably hostile to Soviet Russia. A relationship between Soviet Russia and Finland as ruled today, along the lines outlined by the Soviet-Czech pact, is out of the question. What can Moscow do about...