Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans lived, the commercial district was almost deserted. German language newspapers folded. Among the famed journals of Riga was Das Baltikum, founded by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, chief of the Nazi Party's foreign political office and long regarded as the spiritual font of Naziism. The Hitler-Stalin collaboration has ended Baltic-born Dr. Rosenberg's dream of German eastward expansion at the expense of Russia, and the doctor is now rumored even to have lost the Führer's friendship...
...suggested that here was a complicating detail of his new policy which the Führer had overlooked until the last minute, and that, far from being planned, the transfer was the result of pure immediate necessity. Germany has long considered the Baltic a "German lake." Friendship with Joseph Stalin evidently comes high...
...roost when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, having turned a deaf ear to pleas that he intervene for peace between Germany and the Allies, and having let Russia invade Poland and hog-tie Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania without protest (TIME, Sept. 25, et seq.), vigorously bestirred himself lest Joseph Stalin crack down with undue harshness upon Finland. In Washington, if nowhere else in the U. S., Finland is the national baby of 1939 that has taken the place of 1914 Baby Belgium...
Mobilization & Mannerheim. Finnish President Kyösti Kallio and Premier Aimo Cajander took hard-headed measures of preparation for actual war with the Soviet Union, should it be forced upon them, while at the same time behaving with utmost politeness to Joseph Stalin, showing complete readiness to cooperate in friendship with Russia if the Bolsheviks want to be sincerely friendly...
Soviet Demands. The war-ready Finns took pride in moving with snail-like slowness at the crack of Joseph Stalin's demand that they send a delegation to Moscow (TIME, Oct. 16). Instead of coming by air, as the panicky envoys of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have done, Finnish Chief Delegate Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi rolled comfortably into Moscow by train one morning. At 2:30 p.m. Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov received U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt who brought from President Roosevelt a personal message of "earnest hope that nothing may occur that would be calculated to affect...