Word: russia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upon receipt of a reply from Joseph Stalin's stooge, old President Kalinin of the U. S. S. R., Mr. Roosevelt made public his admonition to Russia to go easy on Finland (TIME, Oct. 23). The President of the U. S. in a "personal message"-in the diplomatic scale, one short of formal representation-had simply reminded Russia of 1) U. S. friendship for little Finland; 2) the fact that Franklin Roosevelt got the U. S. to recognize the friendless Soviets in 1933. The President of the U. S. S. R. diplomatically told the President...
...strike. In a raid on union headquarters, Police Chief O. F. Aderholt of Gastonia was shot dead-whether by strikers or by drunken officers has never been conclusively proved. Convicted of conspiracy to murder, Fred Beal and six others jumped their $5,000 appeal bonds and fled to Soviet Russia. There one blossomed as a professor. Three vanished. One fled back to America and died. Fred Beal and one other eventually returned and were imprisoned, Beal to serve 17 to 20 years...
Fugitive Mr. Beal got in bad with the Russian comrades by finding a worse situation in Soviet Russia. Said he: "I found just the conditions against which I was fighting over here. The union officials . . . ate well, but the workers were hungry and they were in rags. I never saw the equal of that misery in this country...
...help in case of war in the Mediterranean; 2) Turkey will aid Great Britain and France in honoring their guarantees to protect Greece and Rumania. Big condition in the treaty was the provision, made in an adjoining protocol, that Turkey would not be compelled to war against Soviet Russia...
More complicating and difficult was Soviet Russia, with whom Turkey had enjoyed 20 years of uninterrupted friendship. For three weeks before the alliance was finally signed Turkish Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu had been in Moscow. In between visits to the Soviet Agricultural Exposition and the ballet, he had talked with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, who was just then also heavily engaged in conversations with various Finns, Estonians, Lithuanians, Letts...