Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This report is a lie," Mr. Stalin told the editor of Pravda ("Truth"), official Communist Party newsorgan. "But, however much the gentlemen of the Havas Agency may lie, they cannot deny that: First, it was not Germany who attacked France and England, but France and England who attacked Germany, assuming responsibility for the present...
...disclosed in Moscow was what the Dictator did tell his Politburo on Aug. 19, when he presumably explained why it was expedient for Russia to rebuff Anglo-French peace overtures and sign up with Germany on the eve of World War II. Havas had quoted Stalin as saying...
According to Havas, Stalin also outlined to the Politburo on Aug. 19 the coming Soviet seizure of part of Poland and expansion in the Baltic, to be later followed if possible by taking Bessarabia from Rumania, establishing a Soviet zone of influence in Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria and finally attempting to drive a Russian corridor to the Adriatic...
...wise citizen of Paris wants to know what Hitler and Stalin are thinking, what will be the next fantastic episode in an improbable war, he reads what Geneviéve Tabouis has to say in L'Oeuvre, then waits for the exact opposite to happen. For Tabouis is one of the most readable and unreliable reporters of secret political maneuvers, behind-the-scenes diplomacy in all Europe...
Back in August, Tabouis had written: "The Reich Army will join Hungary's General Staff in a common offensive against Rumania." Two weeks later, when Germany invaded Poland, Hungary was neutral. Said Tabouis, two days before Stalin signed a trade agreement with Hitler: "Foreign observers in Berlin learned last night that a basis for agreement has been reached in Moscow by France, England Russia, Poland, Rumania and Turkey...