Word: russia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mission headed by General Joseph Edouard Doumenc, Member of the Supreme War Council and Commander of the Army Corps at Lille. Britain and France hoped to bring off with a show of force what cautious persuasion, begging, wheedling had not accomplished in months: a three-way military alliance with Russia which would be something besides a suicide pact...
...selfdiscipline, to remain calm and optimistic. The U.S., it was argued, would probably not dare impose a trade embargo. If the worst happened, Japan could prepare for it in the next six months. And early this week anti-U.S. posters appeared in Tokyo streets, announced: "Britain, America and Russia are our common enemy...
...Ides of March that Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky spoke of Russia's strength and peaceful intentions at a dinner for British industrialists, launching stories of negotiations unique in diplomatic history for their repeated reports of success unaccompanied by any concrete results. In the next week Britain was reported to be: 1) weighing a Soviet pact; 2) conquering her fear of Communism; 3) considering Russia's attitude favorable; 4) rejecting Russia's proposal for a six-power conference as premature. By the end of March Russia was reported: 1) to be pleased by the British stand on Poland...
...break in the progress of the negotiations came when Russia's Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff was abruptly retired from his post. But by May 22 authoritative sources declared that the peace front was rapidly becoming a fact, and in five days Great Britain was announced as bowing to Soviet terms, burying her old prejudices, expressing confidence that Russia would agree. Six weeks later negotiations were still going...
Holding them up all this time, said Prime Minister Chamberlain last week, were conflicting definitions of "indirect aggression"-i.e., a Nazi coup in Latvia, Estonia, or other states which may be guaranteed against aggression by the pact. France, Great Britain and Russia all wanted to avoid giving the impression that they were "encroaching upon the independence" of the guaranteed countries. France and Great Britain felt that the Russian proposals could be interpreted in this way. But, he added, all three realize that "indirect aggression might be just as dangerous as direct aggression and all three desire to find a satisfactory...