Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City the Papal newsorgan Osservatore Romano reflected the horror of His Holiness: "This ferocious Ivan sits in the Kremlin in a worker's smock and after the heads of both enemies and friends have rolled, issues appeals to war to the people, regiments the wretched moujik in the Red Army, and transforms it into a blind instrument of oppression of the liberty of nations...
...Break? Outside Russia last week only the German press gave even lip service to the proposition that J. Stalin & Co. were justified in cracking down on Finland. In private conversations German officers gloomed that if the Red Army is kept fighting for any length of time the Russians will obviously cut down on the supplies they have promised to send the Nazis. Adolf Hitler's own Völkischer Beobachter, observed in cold approval of Russia's course: "Strong powers are only forced to exert pressure on the weak when malicious and selfish advisers mislead a weak power...
Anti-Soviet demonstrations occurred in many South American capitals last week and the press was unanimous in echoing famed La Prensa of Buenos Aires, which viewed with alarm the recognition by Russia of a Red stooge Government in Finland. This "proves to the world the danger of Soviet methods," said La Prensa, "since it appears its policy is to utilize emissaries in all countries who remain hidden until an opportune moment...
...Oslo last week the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the Norwegian Parliament announced that it will make no 1939 award, recalled that during World War I the award was given only once, in 1917 to the International Committee of the Red Cross...
...tongue is Finnish. Mainly for this reason, sentimental Hungarians consider the Finns "our northern cousins." Last week Hungarians were dismayed to hear of the Soviet invasion of Finland. At the same time fear of the Russians came nearer home with disturbing occurrences on their own Russian (recently Polish) frontier. Red Army soldiers, it was reported, fired on Hungarian sentries. More important, Hungarian military authorities seized large batches of Communist propaganda pamphlets shipped into eastern Carpatho-Ukraine, the mountainous district which Hungary grabbed from dying Czecho-Slovakia last March and which the Nazis once thought of using for a jump...