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...secret protocol tothe Nazi-Soviet pact divvied up Poland and split the Baltic States between Russian and German spheres of influence. From the protocol: "The question of whether the interests of both parties make desirable the maintenance of an independent Polish state and how such a state should be bounded can only be definitely determined in the course of further political developments. . . . Attention is called by the Soviet side to its interest in [Rumania's] Bessarabia...
Such alterations reversed the trend of the prewar years, which had been adding to the protocol of competing steadily. According to Crimed Jerome D. Greene '96, whose reminiscences embrace the roaring nineteenth century, a candidate could make the paper in three weeks...
...Dachshund Howled." "The coming winter," said Protocol M in a message for Red operatives, "will be the decisive period in the history of the German working class. . . . This battle is ... for starting positions for the final struggle. . . ." Then the language became more explicit. Communist cadres would foment hunger demonstrations among factory workers to disrupt production. Transport workers would be prodded to tie up food distribution. The timetable charted general strikes for March, when stocks of fall potatoes would be running out and the Ruhr would be at its hungriest. "The Soviet Union," ran the assurance, "can and will support this...
...Protocol M authentic, as the British said it was? German Communists ridiculed the idea. Sneered Soviet-licensed Berlin am Mittag: "Auntie fainted and the dachshund howled with terror as news of the plot came over the radio. . . ." But other Germans asked themselves: Didn't Protocol M check with Moscow's avowed aim to wreck ERP? Wasn't the Ruhr a logical Communist objective? If the protocol was not the gospel from Belgrade, what was the gospel...
...Here." Still others thought that Protocol M might be anything from a screwball's fraud to a war cry of a group of Communists who were demanding more action by their party. Certainly, there was not much evidence of Communist inspiration in the Ruhr walkouts as yet. But the winter was still young...