Word: russia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concluded Mr. Molotov triumphantly: "Today we [Russia and Germany] are no longer enemies, as yesterday. The art of diplomacy lies in decreasing, not increasing, the number of one's enemies...
Significance. For the moment Stalin's interest is to keep the Red Army sitting on Russia's western marches until Hitler smashes Poland thoroughly. When that happens, if Hitler restores Germany's 1914 borders, Stalin might get some fat slices of pre-War Russia just for sitting still. And best of all, Stalin might achieve the Tsarist dream of owning Constantinople and the Dardanelles...
...phrase coined for British diplomatic publications which had no special covers. Actually the big 1914 war documents of Britain were bound in blue paper. Colors of other nations: Germany, white; France, yellow; Austria-Hungary and the U.S., red; Belgium, grey; Italy, green; Russia, orange...
Meanwhile, in Poland soldiers intoned Jak to na wojence ladnie, first heard during Poland's abortive 1863 revolt against Russia, and later adopted by Pilsudski's Legion...
That morning, dangling his withered left hand on a shiny sabre-hilt, Wilhelm II was considering an ultimatum to Russia (sent the following day): cease mobilization in twelve hours or Germany will fight. Stock exchanges in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, St. Petersburg were already closed in panic. But the London Exchange had had business as usual that Thursday. Many a U. S. businessman waved away Wilhelm's ultimatum as "pure bluff." At 23 Wall Street Mr. Morgan & friends emerged from meeting after three hours, confident there would be no World War. They announced the New York Exchange would remain open...