Word: russian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cold and clear was the U. S. reaction to Russia's move. At the White House the President conferred with Statesmen Hull and Welles, spent 45 minutes with Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope. All day reports of Russian bombings of Helsinki came to the State Department from the U.S. Minister to Finland. At 6 p.m. Mr. Hull got word that in a raid of 15 planes, bombs had fallen near the U. S. legation, that buildings within three blocks were in flames...
...lagged far behind U. S. public opinion. Hostility to Russia that swept up with the German-Russian Pact, that turned into contempt at weird Russian claims of Finnish aggression, flared to new highs, led to loud demands that the U. S. break off diplomatic relations with Russia. Said Senator King of Utah: "My country will no longer grasp the bloody hands of Stalin." Said Senator Vandenberg: "There is no rational alternative except to drive every trace of Communism and Naziism out of the U. S." Said Senator Russell of Georgia, "Of all the terrible incidents of this year, this...
...Michigan, with 100,000, preparations went on for celebration of Finnish Independence Day this week, and Finns were taking up "raianturva kerays" for Finnish aid. Raianturva kerays means frontier defense canvas, began when Finnish workmen voluntarily gave up vacations to work on forts on the Russian frontier...
...hope of Finland checking the Russians is faint," Cawley said, "but they may put up a much better fight than is expected. Whatever the outcome may be, it will be very interesting because this present struggle is the first real test of Russian military strength...
France has crushed her Communists, curbed her radicals. In war she has foregone the luxury of free speech. But America is not at war. Outraged Americans must not be stampeded by the vision of an unleashed Russian juggernaut into silencing all American critics of the status quo. American radicals do not dictate the policy of the Kremlin; they should not be hung in effigy...