Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said he, "there was reason to become alarmed at the possibility of extension of warfare into the Baltic." Next day the Ambassadors of Finland, Sweden and Denmark called at the White House. Wednesday morning the President wrote a note (addressed to President Kalinin of Russia, but intended for Dictator Stalin), left it on his desk for Secretary Cordell Hull to read when he returned from New York at 2 p. m. The Secretary suggested several changes, the note was sent; Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt delivered it and talked for an hour with Premier Molotov. When Russia replied its contents would...
Whatever effect the U. S. move might have on world affairs, and however Joe Stalin replied, general agreement was that it was popular in the U. S. At the National Press Club in Washington, where generally foregather the most cynical, disgusted, acid-eyed newsmen on earth, a routine luncheon turned into an emotional spree: gathering to hear about news broadcasting in Europe, reporters spied Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procopé in the audience, cheered him to the rafters...
...Moscow the desultory Oriental bargaining between Stalin and Saracoglu turned upon what Turkey will do in case Russia alone or Russia and Germany or Germany alone should now decide to invade the Balkans. Stalin was reputedly pressing Saracoglu to agree that in any event Turkey would bar the British and French fleets from passing through the Dardanelles into the Black Sea to bolster up the Balkans. And in Ankara this same demand was vigorously made by German Ambassador Franz von Papen...
...Soviet newspaper translations of the speech into Russian made a few minor but significant changes. Where Hitler named "Stalin" this was changed to "Russia." The Führer's assertion that "Soviet Russia remains Soviet Russia and National Socialist Germany remains National Socialist Germany" was telescoped and softened into "Russia remains Russia and Germany remains Germany...
...came a story of Russian troops in China's Sinkiang Province and a fantastic suggestion that they might threaten India via the trackless 16,000-ft. high plateau of Tibet. Few Indian leaders, and certainly not M. K. Gandhi, would care to exchange their British masters for Joseph Stalin...