Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, 4,000,000 Finns are daring to resist the demands of the Soviet government representing 170,000,000 Russians. As a result, while charting themselves an extremely perilous course in foreign relations, the Finns have caused the people of the world to gaze with incredulity and curiosity at the one Baltic nation not capitulating...
...Soviet Russia's first move, according to the best information correspondents could get, would not be to seize Bessarabia but to give Bulgaria strong support to demand from Rumania the return of Dobruja. Dobruja is a province that Bulgaria lost to Rumania in 1913. Bulgaria has undertaken to barter almost her whole exportable surplus of raw materials to Germany, thus is economically to a great extent under Adolf Hitler's thumb, and the Balkans feared that Russia and Germany would try a "pressure pincers" on Rumania. King Carol, alarmed, conferred with Rumanian political leaders of all parties...
Large-scale new Soviet aid to China was reported to be pouring into China's most important area, Szechwan, through her northwesternmost area, Sinkiang. Nightly, said these dispatches, 300 trucks were arriving in Chengtu, Szechwan, loaded with arms and ammunition. Then they drove back to Sinkiang with silver bullion, silk, wood, oil, hides. Personnel of the Soviet trading agency in Chungking (China's capital, also in Szechwan) was said to have been increased to more than 300, and Soviet military advisers, aviators, and officers to more than...
Three weeks ago it was reported that 300,000 Russian troops had moved into Sinkiang. Last week Japanese sources reported that China's four northwestern-most provinces-Sinkiang, Kansu, Ning-shia, Shensi-from which the famed Communist Eighth Route Army has kept the Japanese, are being systematically Soviet-ized. And from Paris came word that Russia is to transfer tanks, howitzers, machine guns, anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns captured in Poland by both the Red and German Armies across Russia and into China...
...nerves. Abruptly called home for a diplomatic council of war were the Kingdom's envoys to Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria. Of these, astute Vasile Stoica, Ambassador to Turkey, had most to contribute to the question which last week preoccupied all Eastern European statesmen: Will the Soviet Union, fresh from sharing in the partition of Poland and successful in extending "spheres of influence" over the Baltic States, now attempt similar expansionist moves in the Balkans...