Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...punctuated by movements of men and ships, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Premier Edouard Daladier: 1) committed their Governments to unqualified defense of Greece and Rumania in case of attack; 2) prepared to give a similar pledge to Turkey; 3) were able to report progress in bringing big, powerful Soviet Russia at least partly into their "Peace Front."* On the sidelines, Rumania and Poland (whose borders had already been guaranteed) doctored their own 18-year-old alliance against Russian aggression to include German aggression...
...coax the Soviet Union into the Grand Alliance was a ticklish business. The last thing the Polish and Rumanian Governments want is a Red Army on their soil, even one fighting in their defense. They are more than willing, however, to accept Russian planes and munitions. Off early this week from London for Moscow was Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Ivan M. Maisky. He was carrying home to Dictator Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff the outlines of a plan of "limited aid" in case of war. Far from being insulted at being told...
Last week Poland got what Czechoslovakia had pleaded for in vain. Before a hushed, crowded House of Commons 70-year-old Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, former arch-exponent of appeasing the dictators, announced that Britain and France were negotiating with Eastern European nations (understood to include Poland, Soviet Russia, Rumania, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece) a tight system of military agreements to resist further Nazi aggression. In the meantime, moreover, the British Government was prepared to consider the Vistula, the river that flows through the Polish Corridor, just as much its frontier as it has long considered the Rhine. He added...
With the whole world thus searching for loopholes in the British pledge, Septuagenarian Chamberlain this week rose again to speak in the House. In the diplomatic gallery U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky, French Ambassador André Corbin listened. On the floor the group of M. P.'s who had long scoffed at the Prime Minister's efforts to get along with Herr Hitler hung on his words...
...words opened the way for Poland, Rumania, Turkey, the Soviet Union, Greece, Yugoslavia-all to join Britain and France in a pledge to aid one another in case of attack. The British Government had flatly dropped all pretenses of continental neutrality. It was an event that went a long way toward restoring the balance of power that had lately swung heavily in favor of the dictators. If Chamberlain's words meant anything, they meant that from now on Führer Hitler will have few if any more bloodless conquests...