Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attack; 2) prepared to give a similar pledge to Turkey; 3) were able to report progress in bringing big, powerful Soviet Russia at least partly into their "Peace Front."* On the sidelines, Rumania and Poland (whose borders had already been guaranteed) doctored their own 18-year-old alliance against Russian aggression to include German aggression...
...coax the Soviet Union into the Grand Alliance was a ticklish business. The last thing the Polish and Rumanian Governments want is a Red Army on their soil, even one fighting in their defense. They are more than willing, however, to accept Russian planes and munitions. Off early this week from London for Moscow was Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Ivan M. Maisky. He was carrying home to Dictator Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff the outlines of a plan of "limited aid" in case of war. Far from being insulted at being told...
...Cabinet finally concluded last week that "overwhelming military victories" were insufficient to offset the constant flow of foreign money and materiel into China. In the near future they will: 1) enlist the active assistance of Germany and Italy in bringing "diplomatic pressure" against U. S., French, British and Russian aid to China; 2) sharply curtail the interests of those four nations within China...
Birthday. Charles Chaplin, cinemactor. Age: 50. Greetings: from 37 Russian cinema directors, who cabled Mr. Chaplin their appreciation especially of his films Modern Times and City Lights...
...peculiar emotional attitude toward war is expressed in this drama of worldly types caught on a remote mountain in Europe as war breaks out all around them. There is the villainous munitions manufacturer and his actress mistress, formerly a vaudeville performer in America and now posing as a Russian Countess. Clark Gable represents the cabbages as Harry Van, hoofer and friend of the Countess. The tone of Sherwood's play has been lowered to suit the taste of the multitude, and a happy ending weakens the plot. But this is one the whole a superior picture...