Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curzon Line. By last week the British had delved into post-World War I history and had discovered even better reasons for excusing Russian occupation of part of Poland. In late 1919, when the new Republic of Poland was set up in business, map-makers of the British Foreign Office drew a north-south line halfway across Eastern Europe to represent what they considered should be the "legitimate frontier" between newly reborn Poland and Russia. This line started from the easternmost boundary of East Prussia and went directly south through Brest-Litovsk and some miles west...
...From Berlin it was announced that the Soviet Union would deliver to Germany, within the next two months, 1,000,000 tons of badly needed fodder. Skeptics, figuring out that this would mean a daily delivery of 16,666 tons, doubted that the Russian railroads could handle such volume, believed it would take at least a ship a day leaving Black Sea or Baltic ports to transport the fodder. >From Dairen, Manchukuo, came a report, later broadcast from Berlin, that the Russians had agreed to transport 1,000,000 tons of Manchukuoan soybeans over the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Germany...
Talk as the Germans and Russians might over expanding trade, up to this week no foreign correspondent in the Reich could report that he had seen the actual arrival of Russian goods in volume. Foreign diplomats wondered whether these big trade announcements were not calculated: 1) to scare the Allies; 2) to reassure the German people that this time a blockade would not be effective; 3) to persuade doubting Germans that the Russians were, after all, reliable allies. Anent this thesis, the New York Herald Tribune's peripatetic Joseph Barnes, who specializes in listening to streetcar conversations and talking...
...Among German Army officers the problem of accepting the Bolsheviks as allies has been less difficult than it has either for veteran Nazis or for the shopkeeping and white-collar middle class of Germany. . . . Older officers of the Prussian vintage have favored a Russian alliance for 20 years and they are reported to be worried only over the price-in Poland, in the Baltic Sea and possibly in the Balkans-which Hitler...
...Baltic Foreign Minister was hard-pressed for concessions by Soviet Foreign Commissar and Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov and his aides, Comrade Stalin walked into the conference room, put his arm around the visitor's shoulder, smiled benignly, said: "Never mind, I'll protect you from these great Russians." > At a similar conference with another Baltic official Dictator Stalin varied his remark: "You know, these militarists want everything, but I am a politician and I can compromise." Result: The Russian demands were pared down. > When one Baltic Minister brought up the question of what was now to become...