Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only well-known European language which even remotely resembles the difficult Magyar tongue is Finnish. Mainly for this reason, sentimental Hungarians consider the Finns "our northern cousins." Last week Hungarians were dismayed to hear of the Soviet invasion of Finland. At the same time fear of the Russians came nearer home with disturbing occurrences on their own Russian (recently Polish) frontier. Red Army soldiers, it was reported, fired on Hungarian sentries. More important, Hungarian military authorities seized large batches of Communist propaganda pamphlets shipped into eastern Carpatho-Ukraine, the mountainous district which Hungary grabbed from dying Czecho-Slovakia last March...
...Rumania, generally picked as the next victim for Stalin's expansionist program, Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu soft-soaped the Soviet Union: "We are convinced of the similarity existing between the Soviet's affirmed policy of peace and the Rumanian policy of independence." Earlier, George Tatarescu, the new pro-Ally Premier, made a bid for democratic sympathy when he promised to lift the hitherto strict Rumanian press censorship by allowing newspapers to give vent to "impartial criticism and the voicing of grievances against the Government...
...Sofia His Majesty King Boris received Italian Minister Giuseppe Atenolfi, Marquis of Castelnuovo in a two-hour audience at his palace. That day rumor spread about the Balkans that Italy was now very much interested in forming an anti-Soviet Balkan peace bloc and that the Italians had just about persuaded Bulgaria, which has territorial claims on every one of her neighbors, to let bygones be bygones temporarily and join...
...hours before Soviet bombers started laying the eggs of a new war in Finland (see p. 23), Joseph Stalin, cock of the Kremlin walk, last week crowed a loud denial of something firmly believed by most foreigners in Moscow, not to speak of some natives. Correspondent...
...Second, after the outbreak of hostilities Germany addressed France and England with peace proposals while the Soviet Union openly supported Germany's peace proposals because it believed and continues to believe that the earliest termination of the war would fundamentally alleviate the position of all countries and nations...