Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black rainy midnight. The chiefs of Britain and France could not reach this momentous decision, or even get down to discussing it for eight solid hours at No. 10, without having first decided last week -for reasons of high policy-against fighting either for Czechoslovakia or with the Soviet Union, both treaty allies of France...
...shouts were not heard. The only French political parties whose organs urged war were those of the minuscule extreme Nationalist Right and Communist Left. Joseph Stalin appeared, to the French, to have taken in Russia none of the propaganda measures which would have been necessary last week if the Soviet people were to be asked to fight in case Czechoslovakia were attacked. In the general queasy fear of war (and especially of being bombed) which has gripped so many Europeans, the Scandinavian States were actually busy at Geneva last week trying to get the League Covenant reinterpreted so that...
...left the Foreign Office with tears in his eyes, crying: "Do you want to see a man convicted without a hearing? Here I stand!" In Moscow, the Czech Minister Zdenek Fierlinger exclaimed he was positive Russia would "march," but no other Moscow diplomat thought so, and in Geneva the Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff would only say through a secretary: "This is a very delicate matter...
...watch the deepening European crisis. Leftist authorities believed that both sides in Spain would be weakened by a general European war, the Rightists because Germany and Italy would withdraw their generous aid from Generalissimo Franco, the Leftists because not only would they have little chance of receiving further Soviet aid, but Britain and other maritime powers would commandeer for their own use the tramp steamers which now run food and gasoline to Barcelona and Valencia. Leftists believed, however, that they would have less to lose than the Rightists...
WARSAW--Poland tonight told Soviet Russia in effect that she intends to go ahead with her program to regain control of the Polish minority in Czechoslovakia regardless of what Moscow may think about...