Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last remaining big diplomatic job before Britain and France complete their Peace Front (labeled "Encirclement" in Germany) is to sign up Soviet Russia. After weeks of bargaining in secret, both the British and Russians made public their positions, which proved to be not so far apart as pessimistic Britons had feared...
...House of Commons Prime Minister Chamberlain assured the Soviet Union that any Russian guarantees given in Eastern Europe would not be expected to be operative until the British and French marched-in other words, that Britain and France would not leave the Soviet Union holding...
...borders and those of other smaller States. Said Izvestia: "Where there is no reciprocity real collaboration cannot be brought about." Badgered by the French, the British Labor Party and even many of his own Conservatives, Prime Minister Chamberlain may very well soon have to pay this price for Soviet...
...great Prince Potemkin, adviser to and lover of Catherine the Great, in Tsarist days Vice Commissar Potemkin was a professor of mathematics, later went into the diplomatic service. As Ambassador to Italy he became known for his knowledge of Roman antiquities and in France he helped negotiate the French-Soviet mutual aid pact. He is tall, distinguished in appearance, a good linguist. Colonel Beck welcomed the Vice Commissar, and Comrade Potemkin, according to the Warsaw press, picked up from Colonel Beck enlightening details on a deal which Herr Hitler had tried to make some weeks ago with the Poles...
...Warsaw from a much publicized diplomatic swing to Ankara, Sofia and Bucharest went Vladimir Potemkin, the U.S.S.R.'s Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Retired Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and Colonel Beck always rubbed each other the wrong way. Colonel Beck had not talked diplomatic matters over with a Russian since 1934. But Comrade Potemkin was different...