Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Denmark helplessly at the mercy of Germany, Finland desperate, and the cave-digging Swedes still uncommitted to a scrap for Scandinavia, Norway delivered what looked like a spunky slap at the glowering Russian Bear by baldly reversing the Russian view of the City of Flint case and turning the ship back to its U. S. crew...
...stuck faithfully by the Little Entente (CzechoSlovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia) until it collapsed. In the Munich crisis of 1938 he did not hesitate to declare that Rumania would live up to her treaties. His representative at Geneva even began conversations with the Soviet delegate to design ways & means whereby a Russian Army, going to the help of Czecho-Slovakia, could pass through Rumanian territory. Stanch friend of former Czecho-Slovak President Eduard Benes, King Carol turned down cold Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck's scheme for partitioning the Czech State...
...trickled out of Germany: that Miss Mitford had quarreled with her admirer, Adolf Hitler, had attempted to commit suicide by overdosing herself with sleeping potion (which Berlin denied), that she had had a severe attack of double pneumonia and was confined to a Munich nursing home. Latest bulletin: from Russian Prince Nicholas Orloff, quoted last week in the London Sunday Dispatch, that she shot herself in Munich the day France and England declared war. Said Prince Nicholas: "The doctors expressed little hope . . . I believe she is dead...
...mile line is one of the straightest on earth. According to legend, the Tsar so ordered it by ruling a line on the map. According to Parry, Major Whistler's skill and economy had much to do with it. A firm Irish Yankee, he was amazed to find Russian engineers behaving like poets, actors, priests and revolutionaries (Dostoevsky graduated from the Imperial Engineering School in 1843). He proudly refused a commission in the Tsar's army, refused to say "Your Majesty" to Nicholas. Nicholas found him indispensable...
...Deborah, the Major's child by his first marriage. While Mrs. Whistler glowingly distributed Bible tracts to the Tsar's soldiers, who used them to stuff their boots, Major Whistler saw 30,000 serfs sweating twelve hours a day to make his embankments symmetrical, heard his haughty Russian friends warn against ever giving the serfs a decent meal lest it upset their stomachs. In the evenings the Major solaced himself by playing the flute (he had been "Pipes" at West Point), but never on Mrs. Whistler's Sabbath. Despite Mrs. Whistler's disapproval, Deborah went...