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Word: russianized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this were not enough wordage for one day, Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov elaborated on the same theses in an address in the Moscow opera house. He specially re-emphasized Russian neutrality, U. S. S. R.'s "policy of peace." Meantime, Finland, further tightening her defenses, clapped on mail censorship, cut off foreign telephones, waited to see if peaceful Russia would be as good as her protestations (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Anniversaries | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Russians were told that Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko had made a speech at Helsinki in which he denounced "Russian imperialism" and cried, "There is a limit to everything. Finland cannot accept the proposals of the Soviet Union and will defend her territory and her inviolability and independence by all means!" Pravda headlined its story ERKKO INCITES TO WAR!, editorialized that this speech "cannot be understood except as an appeal for war against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." In Moscow only the diplomatic-journalistic colony was aware that Mr. Erkko never uttered the words quoted by Pravda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bitter Pills | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Bolshevik No. 2 did the big talking in Moscow last week. He is broad-shouldered, bushy-mustached, pince-nezed Premier Viacheslav Molotov who looks something like the late Theodore Roosevelt, stutters explosively. Last week, when the Supreme Soviet or Russian Congress met in extraordinary session to admit new delegates from the slice of Poland taken by Dictator Stalin, curiosity was rife as to whether Orator Molotov would again, as in 1937, have to make three great efforts before his speech impediment would permit him to utter the most important cry in Russia: "Long live Comrade Sssssss. . . . Long live Comrade Stttttt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bitter Pills | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Such was Swedish alarm that Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler declared flatly that "if the Finns agree to present ports to the Soviet Union this would signify the end of Scandinavia!" The Pravda headline over this was Hypocritical Political Game Of Certain Swedish Statesmen. Russian press and radio charged that Britain and France were egging Norway and Sweden into egging Finland into disastrous truculence. "During the Tsarist regime Finland was completely subjected to Russia," snorted Pravda. "Then, Swedish statesmen never muttered about danger for Sweden, but cringed and groveled in every way before the Tsarist Government!" They now have a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bitter Pills | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...exactly what might be expected from the nation known to them through the medium of the playing field. Aside from political, racial, and economic factors explaining the so-called natural Finish antipathy for Russia, persons familiar with Finland's national "personality" declare that her stubborn refusal to accede to Russian demands is entirely in accord with Finnish attitudes in athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finn Stand Against Russia Is Typical Of Traditional Attitude Toward Sports | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

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