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Word: russia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most significant straws in the wind blew down from Moscow. To the often-asked question of "How much of an ally is Soviet Russia of Nazi Germany?" the answer came last week. "No ally at all." Dictator Joseph Stalin and Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov diplomatically kept mum on the subject, but the Kremlin's alter ego, the Communist International, was encouraged to handle the Nazis just about as roughly as French and British capitalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Encircled | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...stronger and pounce on the body of the defeated country to tear off their share." Next day the Fascist journalists struck back, led by Dictator Benito Mussolini's famed mouthpiece, Virginio Gayda. "If today Europe is fighting a war of imperialism and plutocratic interests," declared Signer Gayda, "Russia also is in it no less than other powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Encircled | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...were sitting pretty because: 1) the repeal of the U. S. embargo opened to the Allies the "greatest storehouse of supplies in the world"; 2) The British-French pact with Turkey was a "powerful instrument for peace in southeastern Europe"; 3) the German-Soviet pact, while greatly benefiting Soviet Russia, had "brought only humiliation and loss for Germany." The Prime Minister gloated: "The position of the Allies has, as the weeks have gone by, rather strengthened than deteriorated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Encircled | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...fairy time in Russia. Mrs. Stalin is talking to her little son, Junior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grabberwoch Came G | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...historic military mancuvers, none have been so daring as this, Hannibal swept through the Alps, Schlieffen goose-stepped his Prussians around Belgium, but only Boyer is seeking his objective through the Heart. Unlike Russia's overtures to Finland, the movie-star has already won the confidence of his feminine audience. They will cling to every word as he pictures the poilu answering the call of duty just as Boyer placed his marital vows before Irene Dunne (in "When Tomorrow Comes"). They will soon become convinced that a place in the trenches is almost as glorious as a night of Boyer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM ALGIERS TO ALABAMA | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

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