Word: sovietism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...others' help in case of war in the Mediterranean; 2) Turkey will aid Great Britain and France in honoring their guarantees to protect Greece and Rumania. Big condition in the treaty was the provision, made in an adjoining protocol, that Turkey would not be compelled to war against Soviet Russia...
More complicating and difficult was Soviet Russia, with whom Turkey had enjoyed 20 years of uninterrupted friendship. For three weeks before the alliance was finally signed Turkish Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu had been in Moscow. In between visits to the Soviet Agricultural Exposition and the ballet, he had talked with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, who was just then also heavily engaged in conversations with various Finns, Estonians, Lithuanians, Letts...
What Comrade Molotov demanded of M. Saracoglu was kept veiled in Oriental secrecy. A good guess was that the Soviet Union wanted Turkey to: 1) close and keep closed the Dardanelles to belligerent warships-an action which would prevent Allied aid to Rumania; 2) give active assent to Russia's snipping Bessarabia and Bulgaria's snipping Dobruja off Rumania...
...Saracoglu refused all demands, and at length departed, with Soviet and Turkish flags decorating the Moscow station, a band alternating between the Internationale and the Turkish national anthem and a courteous Soviet communique announcing that the two countries still retained their friendship. Later, however, the Moscow newsorgan Izvestia ominously hinted that Turkish-Russian relations had soured. At the same time in Ankara, German Ambassador Franz von Papen entrained for Berlin, there to explain to Fiihrer Hitler why he had failed to win the Turks away from the Allies...
...sixth of the population of Finland had fled from their homes last week, terrified lest a Russian invasion should follow up the still secret demands of Joseph Stalin. Peasants abandoned their farms along the Soviet frontier, the men joining the Finnish Army, the women and children plodding on foot to refugee camps in the interior. They had to walk because the Army was obliged to seize all horses and carts in the frontier districts for its service of supply. Most of the fleeing refugees left behind all their possessions, except what they could carry in a few bundles, but occasionally...