Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declaring that the border incident was a "provocational shelling," Comrade Molotov asserted that the "concentration of Finnish troops near Leningrad not only creates a menace to Leningrad, but is, in fact, a hostile act against the U.S.S.R. . .. Therefore, the Soviet Government.. . proposes that the Government of Finland withdraw its troops without delay 20 to 25 kilometers (twelve to 15 miles) farther from the border of the Karelian Isthmus, thus preventing the possibility of a repeated provocation. Accept, Mr. Minister, the assurance of my perfect respect...
...demanding stern action against the "Finnish militarists." Moscow troops even got together and handed out statements declaring that there was a "limit to patience" and asking the Government to "bridle the [Finnish] provocateurs of war." Foreign newsmen were allowed to send out reports of huge concentrations of Soviet troops in the Leningrad district which, it was said, were ready for action. The Moscow radio called upon the Finnish people to overthrow their government and "escape the fate of Poland...
...Premier also conferred with Dr. Eduard Benes, former President of Czechoslovakia from which Poland last year seized by force about 400 square miles, the Teschen area. Czechs bitterly declare that Poland did to them exactly what the Soviet Union later did to Poland: took advantage of a Nazi smash to grab. But today there is no point in Czecho-Slovaks quarreling with Poles, and General Sikorski observed after his conference with Dr. Benes: "Past errors between our two countries have been repaired and in the future we shall co-operate...
...clear," Professor Fay said, "what Hitler and Ribbentrop expected to get out of the Russo-German treaty of friendship of August 22.... They believed that the German Soviet combination would also frighten England and France from giving their promised support to Poland...
...bear that walks like a cobra has shocked the world by sinking its fangs into Finland's neck. Americans are sickened by grotesque Soviet talk of Finnish war mongering and border incidents. There is a real danger that they will be so shocked and so sickened that they will mistakenly take out their ice on the hides of Russia's defenders in this country...