Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later, Gospodin Kuusinen and Premier-Foreign Commissar Molotov initiated in Moscow a "mutual assistance" treaty between the two Governments which, it was significantly said, will be formally signed later in Helsinki. The Soviet Union, having cut off all communication with the now unrecognized Finnish Government, paid little heed to appeals delivered through third parties. As it began to appear more & more that the Finns would have to fight it out, Premier Ryti stout-heartedly declared: "We will not consent to bargain away our independence. . . . We will fight alone and we expect...
Early this week Finland made the last desperate gesture of a hard-pressed Government. It appealed to the League of Nations to intercede. Professing bewilderment, Soviet Russia informed the League of Nations that she regarded Finland's appeal as "unfounded," declaring that she was maintaining "peaceful relations" with the "People's Government" of Finland...
...Rome some 300 uniformed Fascist youths, returning from afternoon drill, broke ranks and demonstrated violently in front of the Soviet Embassy. Most Italian papers were cautious in their comments but Il Telegrafo, organ of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, disapprovingly observed, "In the great Nordic plain of the Continent the wolves are having their...
...Anti-Soviet demonstrations occurred in many South American capitals last week and the press was unanimous in echoing famed La Prensa of Buenos Aires, which viewed with alarm the recognition by Russia of a Red stooge Government in Finland. This "proves to the world the danger of Soviet methods," said La Prensa, "since it appears its policy is to utilize emissaries in all countries who remain hidden until an opportune moment...
Europe" (presumably Finland). Editor Cockburn, also on the staff of London's Communist newsorgan the Daily Worker, tried to suggest, even as the Kremlin's propagandists have in Moscow, that Finland was aided and abetted by Great Britain in her "aggressions" against the Soviet Union...