Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Berlin last week came word that the man whom Führer Adolf Hitler had chosen to raise an army of White Russians to stir up trouble on the Ukrainian border was onetime Tsarist General Turkul. The general is accustomed to trouble, having recently been deported from France for alleged German dealings uncovered during the inquiry into the mysterious "kidnapping" of General Eugene de Miller, leader of Paris' White Russian colony...
Frosty-bearded General Anton Denikin, commander of the White armies in their last-ditch fight against the Reds in the south of Russia in 1918-20, emerged from his Paris retirement last week to excoriate any "socalled White Russian" who would join Hitler to fight the Soviet Union. In a phrase reminiscent of Frenchman Jacques Deval's play Tovarich-which Adolf Hitler has seen three times-old General Denikin cried to an audience of fellow-exiles: "White or Red, our fatherland remains our fatherland. Whoever may aid Russia's enemies cannot call himself a patriot, no matter what...
Supported by dossiers gathered by his extra-legal White Russian secret service, General Denikin, who bears a strong resemblance to England's late King George V, charged that in addition to General Turkul, two other Tsarist officers, Generals Biskupsky and Solonevich, had gone into the pay of the Nazis...
...torpedo boat Protet was ordered into the Black Sea to protect French nationals from Bolshevist attacks. One day the Protet was ordered to fire on Russian towns to break Red morale. Second Officer Mechanic André Marty persuaded his fellow sailors to refuse to bombard defenseless citizens, threw his superiors in the brig, hoisted a red flag in sympathy with those on shore. For his mutiny André Marty was sentenced to 20 years at hard labor, of which he served three...
...Export-Import Bank granted China $25,000,000 worth of credit for the purchase of American agricultural implements and machinery. Prompt use of this credit was made last week when China purchased 1,000 trucks from Chrysler and General Motors which could be used to carry Russian supplies over her new motor road from Siberia...