Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magyars and 800,000 Germans. Bulgaria has never forgotten that she lost part of the province of Dobruja to Rumania in 1913 and that some 500,000 Dobrujans are now Rumanian subjects. Bessarabia, to the northeast, with 1,500,000 Ukrainians, Russians and Poles, was absorbed by Rumania from Soviet Russia in 1920. Of Rumania's five neighbors, only two-Yugoslavia and Poland-do not hold grudges against...
...fighters, the Rumanians are known more for their resplendent uniforms than for their fighting.* In the long run Rumania's greater resources should tell, but the joker is that Hungary would be backed by the Third Reich. The possibility loomed last week for a few short hours that Soviet Russia might come to Rumania's aid, but the last thing King Carol wants is Soviet soldiers on his soil. He might find it difficult to get them out afterward...
...Soviet Russia was flattered and amused that Britain was courting her. Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky even had lunch at the London house of Lady Astor, hostess of the famed appeasement-favoring Cliveden Set. But Russia let it be known that since Russia and Germany have no common borders, the Soviet signature was useless without Poland's, and suggested an anti-Nazi conference. This was apparently too near to definite action for the ever-cautious British. The realistic French Quai d'Orsay looked upon the proposed British declaration as a typical instance of Anglo-Saxon diplomatic piety. French Foreign...
...French, British, Soviet and U. S. press vied with each other in denunciations of Fuhrer Hitler. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain officially and publicly buried his appease-the-dictators policy and announced that henceforth what happened in southeastern Europe was decidedly Britain's business. The British Cabinet met in two special sessions, and King George hurried to London from a week-end in the country. A faction led by Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was said to feel that Dictator Hitler could not be stopped this side of Turkey, that Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece...
LONDON -- Europe's "Stop Hitler" drive tonight brought Great Britain and France into consultation on proposals for extension of their military entente to include general staff consultations with Soviet Russia's Red Army...