Word: russia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret: 1) to hand over to the Soviet Union certain small islands, near Leningrad; 2) to refuse to concede to the Soviet Union control of the large Aland Islands near Stockholm; 3) to resist Soviet pressure to enter a military alliance which would make Finland the vassal of Russia. This appeared to be the line taken when Finnish Foreign Minister Dr. Juho Paasikivi went back to Moscow this week for more talks about the "friendship pact." Meantime, however, the Finns prudently prepared to vote $95,000,000 in war credits...
Same day the Polish gold arrived, Paris experts announced they had totted up what they thought was a fair estimate of Soviet Russia's gold reserve. Before World War I Russia ranked fourth among the gold-producing countries of the world. She has vast deposits in the Ural and Caucasus and in Siberia. But according to the Paris experts, the dust has not been panning out the way it should have. As a "considerable over-estimate," the Frenchmen thought the Soviet might have in ready gold 21,000,000 ounces ($760,000,000)-only four times as much...
Last week Russia's gold reserve was a cause of acute alarm to the British Government. A rumor reached London that Russia had shipped 17½ tons of gold to Germany. At first the British Foreign Office was highly skeptical of the rumor, but later, when Sir Alfred Knox asked in the House of Commons whether the Government was aware of the report, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler replied: "Yes, sir, and my noble friend [Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax] has reason to believe that this report is not without foundation." If the Soviet Union was going...
...Just to keep the record straight, the Polish Government protested to Lithuania against receiving Wilno from Soviet Russia. Polish thesis: Lithuania had no more right to receive this territory than Soviet Russia had to give...
...most significant ideas of War, as of everything else, may sometimes be found in the words and deeds of free writers. In Germany, in Russia, and to a great extent in Italy this sensitive register no longer exists, or if it does, remains hidden. In France and England no "war" books have yet appeared. But by last week many writers had tentatively or tartly expressed themselves...