Word: russia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BUDAPEST--Student demonstrations in which Russia was booed and Finland cheered were staged in the streets of Budapest tonight, a few hours after diplomatic relations between Hungary and Russia were restored after a 10-months' break...
Cawley felt that the real reason for Russia's attempt to conquer Finland was that this little country would make a very valuable buffer state against the growing power of Germany. But if Russia moves on and attacks the Aaland Islands it would then seem evident that Sweden and Norway were Russia's real goal...
...world by sinking its fangs into Finland's neck. Americans are sickened by grotesque Soviet talk of Finnish war mongering and border incidents. There is a real danger that they will be so shocked and so sickened that they will mistakenly take out their ice on the hides of Russia's defenders in this country...
...hangman in the Kremlin has yanked the trap door from under the feet of those die-hard idealists who thought that the new Russia was a religion, a state transecuded by a burning desire to bring peace on earth, good will to men. Soviet Russia, these disillusioned folk know now, is as lustful and cruel as her neighbors. Like her neighbors, she must look first of all to her own security and power. Nations have always committed murder and rape while quoting the Bible or the Declaration of Independence. But while France and England can fight to save their empires...
...cannot save Finland. Specifically, we cannot save Finland by wiping up the floor with Russia's American apologists, the Communists. Already, however, the witch-hunt is in full swing, with that eminent Finnish patriot, Martin Dies, leading the pack. American radicalism is neither a coherent philosophy nor a unified political movement. There is not even a united front. Communists and Socialists, Lovestoneites and Trotskyites are engaged in endless guerilla warfare. Because one section of the radical movement supports Stalin, the whole liberal and radical melange is threatened by a tidal wave of reaction...