Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect the Soviet Union...
...occasion when a Baltic Foreign Minister was hard-pressed for concessions by Soviet Foreign Commissar and Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov and his aides, Comrade Stalin walked into the conference room, put his arm around the visitor's shoulder, smiled benignly, said: "Never mind, I'll protect you from these great Russians." > At a similar conference with another Baltic official Dictator Stalin varied his remark: "You know, these militarists want everything, but I am a politician and I can compromise." Result: The Russian demands were pared down. > When one Baltic Minister brought up the question of what...
...potent, says Harold Ickes, because newspapers have become a semimonopoly; over 80% of all U. S. dailies are without opposition in their communities; more than 37% of their total circulation is controlled by 63 newspaper chains; most big publishers serve as directors of other corporations, which they try to protect; lesser publishers are forced to truckle when banks threaten their investment or advertisers their revenues...
...intricate affair sprinkled throughout with "ifs," the treaty provided that: 1) all three nations will go to the others' help in case of war in the Mediterranean; 2) Turkey will aid Great Britain and France in honoring their guarantees to protect Greece and Rumania. Big condition in the treaty was the provision, made in an adjoining protocol, that Turkey would not be compelled to war against Soviet Russia...
...Kingdom, as they enter upon the terrible ordeal of war, may be able to join together as one company in committing the national life and cause to Almighty God."* Said Roman Catholic Canon Martin Hewlett: "They at home . . . should invoke the powerful aid of the Queen of Heaven to protect England, her dowry, in this time of crisis...