Word: russian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Chile over the Andes to Argentina the President last week shifted Ambassador Norman Armour, 51, famed as the State Department's smoothest French-speaker, whose wife is a Russian princess. To be Government Secretary for the Virgin Islands he named Robert Morss Lovett, 68, distinguished left-wing belles-lettrist, Emeritus Professor of English of the University of Chicago, persistent civil libertarian...
...Most ominous-and least likely-explanation of the change: Comrade Stalin had decided to ally himself with Führer Hitler. Obviously Comrade Litvinoff, born of Jewish parents in a Polish town (then Russian), could not be expected to complete such an alliance with rabidly Aryan Nazis...
...Adolf Hitler's "if-I-had-the-Ukraine" line of chatter, he played the game of collective security for all it was worth throughout the dictators' aggressions in Ethiopia, Spain, Austria. Last autumn, the Czecho-Slovak crisis found him again at Geneva proposing joint British-French-Russian action to save the Czechs...
LONDON, May 5 (A.P.)-The British Government today accepted Soviet Russia's proposal to form a British-French-Russian military alliance...
WARSAW--Poland tonight hastened to assure Berlin and other capitals that the "complete normalization" of Polish-Soviet relations resulting from the visit of Russian Foreign Vice-Commissar Vladimir P. Potemkin bars any offensive alliance against Germany...