Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppression of the French Communist Party, no less than in the mysterious report that Adolf Hitler might put an abrupt and disconcerting end to the Stop Hitler movement by abdicating. But the scorn burned warmest in the stories that dealt with the likelihood that those great pacifists, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, had united in the drive for Peace...
...Germany, Adolf Hitler tells his people what he wants, and takes it. In Russia, Joseph Stalin does the same. In France, Edouard Daladier had promulgated sweeping socialistic measures by decree. In Great Britain, Sir John Simon opened the budget in September instead of April...
...other side of Europe things were getting tough for Italy. In Moscow, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Joseph Stalin divided Poland with not so much as a by-your-leave to Benito Mussolini, who wants an ethnic Polish state where 20,000,000 good Polish Catholics might live with the blessing of the Pope. The Balkans, which Italy thought would turn to her while Germany was at war, turned to Russia instead...
With the fall of Warsaw ancient and historic "Holy Poland" was again without a capital (see p. 32). However, through five centuries, half-a-dozen major wars and three partitions until Hitler & Stalin made the fourth, Poland has endured often as a burning ideal in the hearts of the Polish people rather than as a political fact. It was therefore no surprise last week when a brand new Polish Government popped up in Paris. At the Polish Embassy there it was announced that just before President Ignacy Moscicki fled from Poland to Rumania (TIME, Oct. 2) he secretly resigned...
...velvet glove of diplomacy is empty unless a firm fist can be felt beneath it. Last week J. Stalin showed Russia's fist as well as her finesse. For several days Moscow was the undisputed diplomatic capital of Europe. It was a Mecca to which diplomats either made pilgrimages or salaamed. The Foreign Ministers of Germany, Turkey and Estonia all trotted to the Kremlin. Great Britain discussed whether she ought to send David Lloyd George there, and Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria were all on the point of dispatching top flight statesmen eastward. In Sofia, Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, than...