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...although both of these factors certainly play an important part. The cause of the jumpy nerves of the Soviets goes far deeper and is less tangible than this; what this cause is was revealed in a recent speech by Stalin in which he warns the powers to "keep their swinish snouts out of the Soviet potato patch" and in similar pronouncements by his associates. What the Russians fear is that in case of a war with the Japanese the rest of the capitalist powers are going to gang up on Russia and engage in a good deal of international...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/21/1934 | See Source »

...talk reached a new high in Moscow fortnight ago when Dictator Stalin told the 17th Russian Communist Party Congress: "Those who attack us will get such a decisive blow that they will learn to keep their swinish snouts out of our potato patch. . . . We must take every precaution to prepare ourselves against sudden attacks in the Far East. . . . Relations between Japan and the U. S. S. R. need serious improvement. . . . One section of the military party in Japan openly advocates the necessity of war against the U. S. S. R. . . . The Japanese Government instead of calling these incendiaries to order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: The Word Is Out | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

Strengthened by President Roosevelt's act, Russia now feels strong enough, Comrade Stalin indicated, to withstand an assault from either the East (Japan) or the West (Germany). "We warn all such nations," said the Dictator, "not to poke their swinish snouts into the Soviet potato patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: 'Swinish Snouts | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...Swinish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

Your issue of March 30, end of second complete paragraph, has-"In March the British 5th Army under General Gough ran before the last desperate German offensive." This, sir, is a pretty swinish thins to write: the sth Army did not run before any attack, at any time. My own battalion-one of all those who stood and fought-was reduced to about 80 men out of (on the 21st) some 790. The '"bite" resulted from the lack of reserves to support the first three lines in those last days of the month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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