Word: russian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only well-known European language which even remotely resembles the difficult Magyar tongue is Finnish. Mainly for this reason, sentimental Hungarians consider the Finns "our northern cousins." Last week Hungarians were dismayed to hear of the Soviet invasion of Finland. At the same time fear of the Russians came nearer home with disturbing occurrences on their own Russian (recently Polish) frontier. Red Army soldiers, it was reported, fired on Hungarian sentries. More important, Hungarian military authorities seized large batches of Communist propaganda pamphlets shipped into eastern Carpatho-Ukraine, the mountainous district which Hungary grabbed from dying Czecho-Slovakia last March...
...Characteristic part of Balkan political life is the student demonstration, often a bought-&-paid-for affair. At Belgrade, university students broke up a meeting of the Yugoslav Friends of France. Yugoslav authorities suspected Russian agents were responsible, arrested 50 students, put the autonomous Belgrade University under direct governmental control...
...also outlined to the Politburo on Aug. 19 the coming Soviet seizure of part of Poland and expansion in the Baltic, to be later followed if possible by taking Bessarabia from Rumania, establishing a Soviet zone of influence in Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria and finally attempting to drive a Russian corridor to the Adriatic...
After these pro-Russian sentiments had appeared in print last week, Bill Spofford was irritated by the invasion of Finland. To protect Leningrad, Russia needed Baltic bases, and Finland might have handed them over quietly. Whether the C. L. I. D. (some 3,000 members) would take the same line when it meets in January, he did not know...
...capitalism, his audience listened politely, interrupted with only an occasional "Hear! Hear!" or "Prove it!" When Comrade Browder declared that the Soviet Union was determined to maintain peace, the audience laughed loudly. But Mr. Browder got his biggest hand when he asserted that if the U. S. copied the Russian system it could by 1950 give every U. S. man, woman and child a bonus...