Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the Soviet Union signed a treaty with China promising that neither would aid an enemy attacking the other. Though this did not commit the Soviet to sending help to China it was a slap in Japan's eye and Japan could not but suspect "secret clauses" which might eventually bring Russia into the war. Entirely bloodless but saddest incident of the week for Japan was the announcement that since the war began she has had to export over $65,000,000 worth of gold. This brought her slender gold reserve down to a still slenderer...
...Soviet Russia, the nation most keenly interested in a victory for the Spanish Left, two years ago contracted ties with Czechoslovakia and might logically have taken a hand in the matter...
...Belge published an interview in which he greeted the Belgians, promised that after "my victory" Italy, Germany would not be specially favored by the new Spain, that even France, despite surface Leftist support, would be treated with equality. Franco said he wanted to be friends with all countries except Soviet Russia...
Before starting on a cruise from Hamburg, Germany on her four-masted sailing yacht Sea Cloud, Mrs, Joseph Edward Davies, a director and largest stockholder of General Foods Corp., wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., who last year took with her to the Soviet Union 2,000 pints of frozen cream, ordered from the U. S. two tons of frozen fruits, vegetables, and poultry, all packed by a General Foods subsidiary...
...When Soviet machinations in revolution-torn Sinkiang province brought an order to get rid of all "questionable" foreigners, the roundup produced seven individuals as mysterious as Serafimov, who traveled together until further machinations caused a further splitting up of their ranks. Serafimov's victim was a fastidious, ratlike Belgian named Goupillière. A murderer himself, Goupillière's face was "as subtle as a woman's, as ambiguous as a thief's," since it was divided by an ugly scar left when a mistress had tried to kill him with a pair of scissors...