Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stalin Jumps In. Not a word did President Benes reply to demands made last week by Poland and Hungary that Czechoslovakia must yield her Polish and Hungarian minority districts to them, since she had promised to yield the Sudetenland to Germany. Dr. Benes left it to high-minded, sad-faced Viscount Halifax, the British Foreign Secretary, to tell Polish and Hungarian envoys in London at two extremely angry sessions that they could not have what Germany could wrest by her Might; instead, they must delay their claims until a later date. The psychologist of Prague correctly judged that this would...
...policy of bending like a reed before the Nazi storm, then snapping back with General Syrovy like a whalebone, President Benes meanwhile attracted some aid from the ever-cautious Soviet Dictator. For once, Joseph Stalin, ordinarily content to leave Russian foreign policy largely to Maxim Litvinoff, who was at Geneva all week (see p. 16), suddenly bestirred himself in Moscow. The Soviet press was not permitted to announce the fact, but the Kremlin flashed to Warsaw a drastic threat that, if Poland should invade Czechoslovakia, Russia would at once denounce her 1932 Treaty of Non-Aggression with Poland and "march...
...fingernail of a tiny finger of Czechoslovakia extending 18 miles into Germany, and Sudetens in this salient proudly pinched themselves off. They issued proclamations defying Prague, warned that Nazi vengeance will be taken later on every Sudeten who "as a traitor puts on the uniform of Stalin and Syrovy...
...time during the week the crucial question of whether Czechoslovakia, if attacked by Germany, could count in any case on Russian aid. Up to now Maxim Litvinoff has for many years made all important declarations of Soviet foreign policy, but as he lingered in Geneva last week Dictator Joseph Stalin jumped into the game. Abruptly, Moscow flashed a warning to Warsaw, lest the Poles dare to take a bite out of Czechoslovakia...
Mothers and Sons (Mosfilm). Veteran Director V. Pudovkin turns his attention to Soviet aviation. Players include E. Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya (as the Mother), J. Stalin (as local color...