Word: premier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Russians accused Finland of using chloropicrin (vomiting) gas, Premier Ryti sagely warned his countrymen to ready their gasmasks...
First Pressure was applied on Sunday, when the Red Army reported an incident-on the border which, the Soviet Union claimed, killed or wounded 13 soldiers. Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dispatched a note to Finland immediately demanding that Finnish troops be moved from twelve to 15 miles back of the border. On Monday the Finns formally disavowed the incident, replied with a refusal to move their troops unless the Soviet Union did likewise. After that the Finnish-Soviet timetable was crowded with angry notes, inflammatory speeches, useless diplomatic parleys...
Such hostility, the Premier continued, was "incompatible" with the Finnish-Russian non-aggression pact. Therefore: "The Soviet Government deems itself compelled to state that from this date it considers itself free from the obligations undertaken under the non-aggression pact concluded between the U. S. S. R. and Finland and systematically violated by the Government of Finland. Accept, Mr. Minister, assurances of my perfect respect." Meanwhile, three new border incidents were reported exclusively by the Red Army...
...Premier also conferred with Dr. Eduard Benes, former President of Czechoslovakia from which Poland last year seized by force about 400 square miles, the Teschen area. Czechs bitterly declare that Poland did to them exactly what the Soviet Union later did to Poland: took advantage of a Nazi smash to grab. But today there is no point in Czecho-Slovaks quarreling with Poles, and General Sikorski observed after his conference with Dr. Benes: "Past errors between our two countries have been repaired and in the future we shall co-operate...
When Leon Blum, onetime Premier of France, was attacked as an "unconscious" German agent by the reactionary Paris Matin, he wrote an answer for his own Socialist daily, Le Populaire, that began: "We don't see how censorship could prohibit us from making a legitimate reply." The rest was censored. Next week Editor Blum tried a trick that worked for Georges Clemenceau in War I: he sent copies of a censored article by mail to members of the Chamber of Deputies. They were seized by postal censors...